Ulnar neuropathy

[Anjenica]

Any ideas on how to treat ulnar neuropathy stemming from the cubital tunnel (most likely also n. root involvement)? I've been doing post. ulnar glides, ULTT gentle nerve glides, C/S txn. without much success. I don't see very many of these but I've got 2 on the go right now.

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[Judith Mollet]

I have a case now in a 80 year old where the diagnosis from one neurologist was a distal ulnar problem but the guy also had from hospital: suspected small stroke; had slight spinal stenosis and a history of rightsided neck/shoulder problems. Otherwise "fit" having been active until now. After 7 weeks it's improved brilliantly. Gentle manual traction, gentle physiological rotation, ULTT with ulnar and median. Active mobilisation thorax/cervical, all that the previous writers have suggested but with care. No splints, but self mobilising to maintain ROM. If you haven't been treating too long yet don't give up, mine didn't seem to be getting anywhere then suddenly did!

[emad]

Yes , Physiological Mobilization of thorax ,cervical and both shoulder ..neural glides of upper limbs are really effective in case of ulnar and other distal nerve injuries or neuropathy besides to active strenghening gentely to the muscles supplied by the affected nerve .
e.g ulnar nerve
abducation and adducation of fingers
opposation movments
wrist deviations

I designed some neural glides for ulnar nerve and applied some hands-on glides of the nerve ..but seems difficult to explain it in words .

cheers
Emad