John, you are correct. I misspoke. The middle ‘X’ on my photo is the median nerve. There goes my ‘my armchair expert’ status..... My damage is mostly to both ulnar nerves, which is why I don’t like the Albastache, but my other nerves are affected too. On a hard ride, the wrong handlebar, tire pressure etc. can cause me to lose my grip on the handlebar, and unable to squeeze the brake lever. It scared me big time, the first time it happened, as it was my front brake and I had to stop quickly. Nothing there. It’s a very freaky feeling to lose something that has always worked unconsciously. After an hour at the side of the trail, I trusted my hand to finish the rest of the ride, after I lowered my air pressure, and slowed to a crawl. I don’t use padded gloves, because of the ulnar pressure. The search goes on for a time machine... I need to go back and make some changes. Thanks for the correction and the diagram. Clayton
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Friday, November 16, 2018, 10:14 AM, Surlyprof <jmcclu...@gmail.com> wrote: Clayton, The center is actually the Median nerve. The Radial runs closer to the ball of the thumb. Although there are several repetitive stress injuries that effect the hand, carpal tunnel issues effect the median nerve and can be brought on by trauma and repetitive stress (grocery clerks used to often get it until they redesigned the scanners). When the synovial sheath is swollen it puts pressure on the median nerve causing pain numbness usually in the index and middle fingers. Unfortunately, once the synovial sheath is swollen, it generates friction on the tendons which aggrevates it more. That swelling is why carpal tunnel is so hard to fix even with surgery. Many of the glove manufacturers learned to put pads on both sides of the median nerve but that tends to put pressure on the radial and ulner nerves. I’ve found that riding the front curves of the albastache tends to put the most pressure on the ulnar nerve. This diagram does a pretty decent job of showing what effects what: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/d2/63/00d263b0aef6950308611260909af357.jpg John An avid albastache fan who moves his hands around a lot to redistribute pressure as often as possible. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/dmrOBmIrdI4/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
