Today’s video covers two of the best exercises for treating finger numbness and tingling. The exercises in this video are median nerve mobilizations, which will help with pain, numbness and tingling in the thumb, index, middle and ring fingers. The median nerve is the only nerve that passes through the carpal tunnel, which is the most common site for developing a compression neuropathy in the human body. Carpal tunnel syndrome can cause hand weakness, numbness, tingling and pain in the thumb, index finger, middle finger and a portion of the ring finger.

Besides numbness and tingling in the fingers, some people with general neck pain and nerve pain farther up the arm find this mobilization to be helpful.

1. The first exercise is a more common median nerve mobilization, but was only found to cause 6.6mm of movement at the carpal tunnel.

2. The second exercise shown here is a relatively new median nerve mobilization technique (see research citation at bottom) that was found to create 13.8mm of nerve slide in the carpal tunnel.

Even though the second technique created more movement at the carpal tunnel, both techniques were fairly equal in terms of how much they moved the median nerve more proximally. So, experiment with both and figure out what works best for you and your symptoms.

Reference: Meng S, et al. Longitudinal gliding of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel: Ultrasound cadaveric evaluation of conventional and novel concepts of nerve mobilization. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 2015.

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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Median vs Ulnar Nerve
01:13 Mobilization #1
02:43 Mobilization #2
04:19 Program in My Book