What we treat
Numb or tingling hands
Waking in the night needing to shake your hand awake is the sign most people recognise first.
A nerve runs into your hand through a narrow tunnel at the wrist. If there is pressure in that tunnel the nerve is squeezed, and the parts of the hand it serves go numb or tingle.
It typically affects the thumb, index and middle fingers, and it is usually worse at night because of how the wrist rests while you sleep.
Your doctor may have called it carpal tunnel syndrome.
What we do
What treatment involves
A rehabilitation doctor plans it before anything starts. Nothing is decided before somebody has looked at you.
The doctor examines the hand and works out whether the problem is at the wrist or higher up — the neck can cause very similar symptoms, and treating the wrong one wastes your time.
Hand therapy covers splinting, specific exercises, changing how you use the hand at work, and treatment to settle the nerve.
If it needs an opinion about surgery, the doctor will say so rather than keep treating it.
How long will it take? It depends on what the doctor finds, and they will tell you at your first visit rather than guess before seeing you.
Equipment
The doctor decides what you need
We have equipment most clinics here do not, and which of it helps depends entirely on what the examination finds.
We have not put a list of machines on this page, because for numb or tingling hands the honest answer is that it depends on what the doctor finds when they look at you. You do not have to know, and being told a machine before anybody has examined you is not useful.
Come and be looked at.
Ring and describe it in your own words. We will tell you honestly whether we can help — and if we are not the right people, we will say so.
Using an HMO? See the providers we bill directly — bring your Letter of Authorisation and we will do the paperwork.
Mon–Sat, 8am – 8pm
Also treated
Other things people come to us with
Lower back pain
The most common reason people come to us. Most of it gets better with the right treatment, and you do not need to know which kind.Recovery after a stroke
The work after a stroke is slow and it is worth doing. We treat patients on the wards at Chong Hua and carry on with them in the clinic.Frozen shoulder
A shoulder that has slowly stopped moving, often without any injury to blame it on. It is common, and it responds to treatment.