Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Your fingers tingle. They go numb — especially at night, when everything is still and the body comes to rest. Perhaps you wake up because your hand feels as if it no longer belongs to you. You shake it, move it, wait until the feeling returns. During the day you notice that your grip is weakening. Things slip from your hand. The pain draws from the wrist into the first three fingers — thumb, index finger, middle finger. Medicine says: a nerve is being compressed. The median nerve, which runs through a narrow canal in the wrist, is under pressure. Too much strain, too little space, too much swelling.

But why right now? Why you? And why precisely the hand — the tool with which you grasp, shape, touch, and act?

Carpal tunnel syndrome is more than a compressed nerve. It is the signal of a life being squeezed through a canal that is too narrow.