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What is the purpose of this exercise?

Just like our muscles stretch as we move our body so too do the nerves of our body. The goal here is to gently slide the median nerve back and forth along it’s path – essentially massaging the nerve as we go

Why would you utilize it?

The median nerve comes out of the neck & runs down the underside of the arm through the underside of the wrist (through the carpal tunnel) and supplies the sensation to your thumb, index and middle finger. Median nerve irritation will typically show up as numbness/tingling/burning/ shooting/shocking sensations in that path & is what is usually affected in carpal tunnel syndrome

Nerve irritation and pain generally results from one or both of the following mechanisms: physical compression of the nerve (as with a herniation) or neuroinflammation (inflammation of the nerve.)

The idea of this exercise is to massage the nerve to get blood flowing and moving in the area – the theory being this targeted movement helps to clear out some of that neuroinflammation – thereby helping to calm down that nerve pain

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