The median nerve runs from your neck to three fingers and gets trapped in carpal tunnel syndrome. This nerve glide technique moves your arm and head together to improve how the nerve slides through tissue, without stretching it like a muscle. Stop if you feel numbness or tingling.
The median nerve is a nerve that runs all the way from our neck, all the way down our arm and into these 3 fingers. It's a nerve that people talk about with carpal tunnel a lot, but it can be entrapped in several different places along our arm. And so one way to try and decrease some of the tension in a nerve is to do a nerve glide. Nerves, unlike muscles, do not like to be stretched. So this exercise is really to just try and increase some nerve mobility within the tract in which that nerve runs. So for the median nerve, we're going to start in this position, kind of like we are holding a tray. You want to find a position here where you're not feeling any of that numbness or tingling in your arms at all. So from here, all you're going to do is you're going to bring arm out and back just like this. Then we're going to start to add some head movements too, because again, that nerve goes all the way from the neck all the way down to the hands. If you feel any numbness and tingling here, back off that movement and make it a little smaller. We're just looking to try and get some neural mobility back into that nerve. Give it a try.
