Ulna Nerve Damage - Operating PC have Anything to Do with it?

[shuddleston]

Well I recently filed a worker’s comp claim due to damage in both of my ulna nerves. The ulna nerve is basically your funny bone nerve and can be damaged by resting your elbows on hard surfaces, etc. Basically I have pain in both elbows and permanent numbness in both of my pinky fingers.

I didn`t file the workers comp claim until the Dr. mentioned what is was caused from and that Occupational Therapy may also be helpful. So to make a long story short going through the questioning, testing etc. through workers comp and they brought up my side job of detailing!

Has anyone here in the detailing community had damage to their ulna nerve due to operating a PC, flex or other machine related to detailing? I haven`t been detailing that long, so I figure if this has anything to do with the damage to my ulna nerves that someone else would have experienced it here.

[Gus-Gus]

Well I recently filed a worker’s comp claim due to damage in both of my ulna nerves. The ulna nerve is basically your funny bone nerve and can be damaged by resting your elbows on hard surfaces, etc. Basically I have pain in both elbows and permanent numbness in both of my pinky fingers.

I didn`t file the workers comp claim until the Dr. mentioned what is was caused from and that Occupational Therapy may also be helpful. So to make a long story short going through the questioning, testing etc. through workers comp and they brought up my side job of detailing!

Has anyone here in the detailing community had damage to their ulna nerve due to operating a PC, flex or other machine related to detailing? I haven`t been detailing that long, so I figure if this has anything to do with the damage to my ulna nerves that someone else would have experienced it here.

Ulnar nerve dysfunction is a common form of peripheral neuropathyperipheral neuropathy. It occurs when there is damage to the ulnar nerve, which travels down the arm. The ulnar nerve is near the surface of the body where it crosses the elbow, so long-term pressure on the elbow may cause damage.

The damage involves the destruction of the nerve covering (myelinmyelin sheath) or part of the nerve (axon). This damage slows or prevents nerve signaling.

A problem with one single nerve group (such as the ulnar nerve) is called mononeuropathymononeuropathy. The usual causes are:

* Direct injury
* Long-term pressure on the nerve
* Pressure on the nerve caused by swelling or injury of nearby body structures

so i would say they are looking for any way they can to not pay you...

[Pockets]

Whats your current job.... if you don`t mind me asking?? Do you think that`s what caused it?

[black bart]

I never even heard of it before.

[shuddleston]

It`s called cubital tunnel the opposite of carpal tunnel. I do office work - manage a call center, so I am on a computer and at a desk the majority of the time. Yes I think wresting my elbows on the desk over the years has caused it.

It doesn`t bother me too much until late in the afternoon after working all day at a desk. I have padding that I use but I think the damage is already done. Hopefully I can get surgery to move the nerve and then I`ll regain some of the feeling over time. If untreated they say it can cause muscle damage and eventual clawing up of the finger the nerve controls.

I`ve done some research and the treatement is really hit and miss, so hopefully I`ll have good luck with whatever they end up doing - probably put me out of commission for awhile.

[grisby]

Good luck getting an operation for it. I had it done in 1 elbow and it was a success but they will not touch the other , it comes and goes(its pain most of the time) over the last 4 yrs and I went to 2 specialists. They don`t want to chance the operation due to the closeness of the nerve to whatever else that can be damaged in there. They both feel it can cause more damage than good.

So depending on how severe you have it, you might of caught it in time so that they can do the operatiion.


Me., I don`t go to the doc for every little pain but I guess I should of on this one. Heck they would not even give me a cortisone shot for it due to the closeness of the nerve to whatever( I am not a doc and its been a yr since I last saw him so I forgot the term he used) So you learn to live with it.

Good luck

[shuddleston]

Yep it sucks the pain isn`t there yet just in the elbow area it`s more the numbness that is a little disconcerning right now. Doesn`t seem that there is a 100% fix for it no matter what route you go. I guess I`ll just go through the tests and see what happens. Getting nerve test done through workers comp Friday.

[65chevy]

good luck with nerve test with needle and electic shock not a bad test it just tickels

[black bart]

good luck with nerve test with needle and electric shock not a bad test it just tickelsDepends on the person giving the test the Oriental that gave me that test made me jump about a foot in the air.:wall
I`m sure it would not be bad if the person giving the test knew what they were doing but unfortunately that is not the case many times