Ulnar nerve entrapment occurs when there’s extra pressure placed on your ulnar nerve in your arm. Learn the causes, symptoms, and how to treat it.

While ulnar nerve entrapment is usually not serious, it can have permanent consequences without prompt treatment, including paralysis and loss of feeling in the affected hand or arm.

Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT, DPT, MS Ulnar nerve entrapment occurs when there is too much pressure on the ulnar nerve. This nerve can be entrapped at the elbow or the wrist.

The ulnar nerve is commonly pinched in two places, the elbow and the wrist. This is also known as ulnar nerve entrapment. Depending on where the pinch occurs, ...

Ulnar nerve entrapment is when too much pressure is put against a nerve in your elbow by bones, tendons, muscles, or cartilage and it becomes inflamed or swollen. It’s also known as cubital ...

Compression of the ulnar nerve causes ulnar nerve entrapment syndrome to occur. The ulnar nerve is one of the principal nerves of the upper limb. It has a long course from the neck down into the ...

Although ulnar nerve compression may occur at the ulnar canal of the wrist, its most common location is around the cubital tunnel of the elbow.

Ulnar tunnel syndrome occurs when the ulnar nerve in the wrist becomes compressed by a cyst or repeated strain. Treatment typically involves physical therapy and surgery. The nerve compression in ...

The ulnar nerve at this point, as opposed to the wrist, carries innervation to a portion of the forearm flexor group. The skin innervation is the same as that from a lesion at the wrist level.