| Doctors call it | It feels like | We might treat it with… |
|---|---|---|
| Carpal tunnel syndrome | Numbness and tingling in the fingers, hand weakness, wrist pain | Wrist splints, corticosteroid injections, surgical referral |
| Osteoarthritis | Joint pain and stiffness in the neck, lower back, knees, hips, thumbs, and the small joints of the hand | Corticosteroid injections, physiotherapy, PRP (platelet rich plasma injections), surgical referral |
| Peripheral polyneuropathy | Numbness, tingling or burning pain in feet. Feet may feel spongy or as if there’s something under the ball of the foot | Oral medications, topical creams |
| Radiculopathy | Sudden onset of pain in the neck or low back that refers into arm or hand, leg or foot, with persistent numbness | Corticosteroid injection around the affected nerve root, physiotherapy, or surgical referral |
| Tendinopathy | Pain with touch to irritated tendon. Range of motion is painful | Gentle range of motion exercises, steroid injections, tendon fenestration, PRP (platelet rich plasma injections), or surgical referral |
| Ulnar neuropathy | Hand numbness and tingling, pain at elbow, tingling into hand from elbow | Corticosteroid injection, ulnar nerve transposition surgical referral |
| Other focal neuropathies aka “foot drop” | Numbness on the top of the foot and/or outside of the calf with weakness when picking up the foot | Braces, corticosteroid injection |
The Exercise Medicine & EMG Clinic
