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   What exactly is required to get a Carpal Tunnel Diagnosis?If you have been having pain in your hand and wrist, and numbness in your fingers, you may be thinking about taking a trip to the doctor.Also you need to have the following symptoms:

    1. Reduced range of motion of the wrist

    Long story short, muscles get tight. Connective tissue shrinkwraps. The nervous system starts setting that to normal. Along with some other factors, you start not having the easy range of motion in the wrist that you used to have. Not permanent if you deal with it the right way.

    2. Other symptoms include things like waking up at night because of increased pain and/or pins and needles and numbness.

    Because the muscles are so tight, and the nervous system is trying to protect you by tightening muscles to guard you, your wrist and fingers tend to curl while you sleep, because the muscles are constantly pulling. And this can compress the nerve at the wrist.

    3. Pain in the hand and wrist.

    This can be a dull ache, or a sharp shooting pain. This can be radiating pain that goes down into the hand and in some cases up the arm. Not permanent if you deal with it the right way.

    4. Weakness of finger strength or grip strength.

    This can be partly due to compression of the nerve. But mostly, (and this is not a common view of how this works), the weakness comes because the involved muscles are SO TIGHT that they don't have much strength potential left. Like if you were to squeeze a sponge. Once it's squeezed and compressed, there's not much more squeezing that you can really do to it. Not permanent if you deal with it the right way.

    5. Occasional/constant numbness or pins and needles in the thumb and first two fingers.

    If the numbness is on the pinky finger side of the hand, that's more a Tennis Elbow and Cubital Nerve issue. The Median Nerve feeds the thumb side of the hand. Not permanent if you deal with it the right way.

    If you have the symptoms, you can get the diagnosis. Whether you have the diagnosis or not, you can have the cure.