![]() ![]() Interestingly, the doctor said he himself had the same problem. ![]() However, only an MRI would supposedly confirm that, so he ordered an MRI.Ī few hours later the doctor returned with the MRI report and said, “It was what I suspected you have nerve impingement in the neck.” My mother told him she had difficulty turning her head leftward.Īfter gathering information from her as far as numbness, tingling, pain, etc., the doctor said he suspected a pinched or impinged nerve in the neck. The doctor felt around her neck and discovered an extra sensitive spot. The doctor asked my mother to describe her symptoms, then touched her in various places along the hand and arm, asking what she felt, if she felt it, etc. The doctor who misdiagnosed my mother’s carpal tunnel syndrome for nerve entrapment or impingement in the neck, was an ER doctor whose work badge said “toxicology” on it. Did you know that the symptoms of an impinged neck nerve can masquerade as carpal tunnel syndrome?Ī doctor might get fooled by this.
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