Tingling After Elbow Surgery: Ulnar Nerve Symptoms That Settle and Those to Report

In the recovery bay, before the dressing has even been checked, most people do the same thing: they press the pads of their ring and little fingers against their thumb, one at a time, testing. The fingers feel faintly electric, as if the hand had fallen asleep on a long drive. A nurse says this is expected. It still feels strange to be reassured about a sensation nobody warned you would be quite so loud.

Tingling after elbow surgery sits in an awkward category. The ulnar nerve passes so close to the joint that almost any operation there, from a cubital tunnel release to plating a fracture, disturbs it a little. Most of that disturbance fades. Some of it is a signal that needs a phone call.

Telling the two apart is the whole point of this article: what the nerve is doing, why the sensations follow a pattern, and which changes your surgical team wants to hear about the same day.

Why does tingling after elbow surgery happen at all?

The ulnar nerve is the reason. It is one of the three major nerves of the arm, and at the elbow it runs through a shallow groove behind the bony bump on the inner side, protected by little more than skin and a thin band of tissue. Knock it and you feel the jolt people call the funny bone. That exposed stretch is also why elbow operations so often leave the ring and little fingers buzzing for a while, as the Cleveland Clinic explains in its overview of cubital tunnel syndrome.

Several ordinary things happen to that nerve during surgery. Tissue around it swells. Retractors, the instruments that hold the wound open, may rest against it. A tourniquet on the upper arm briefly starves nerve fibers of blood. If the procedure was on the nerve itself, it has been freed from scar tissue or moved to a new position, and it takes time to settle in.

The medical word for the resulting pins and needles is paresthesia, meaning an abnormal sensation without a clear outside cause. The mildest form of nerve upset is neurapraxia, a temporary block in conduction with no structural damage; think of a garden hose kinked rather than cut. Sensation returns as the kink eases, often within days to weeks, according to the Mayo Clinic’s guidance on peripheral nerve injuries.

A more stretched or compressed nerve may lose some of its fibers and regrow them slowly, which is the second, longer pattern of recovery. The third pattern, where a nerve is actually cut, is rare in planned elbow surgery and is usually recognized at the time. Most of what patients feel in the first weeks belongs to the first two categories, and the sensations behave in recognizable ways.

Which elbow operations put the ulnar nerve in the spotlight?

Not every elbow procedure carries the same risk to the nerve, and it helps to know where yours sits.

Operations on the nerve itself lead the list. Cubital tunnel release, also called ulnar nerve decompression, opens the tight tissue tunnel behind the elbow so the nerve has room. Ulnar nerve transposition goes further and moves the nerve to the front of the elbow, where it is no longer stretched every time the joint bends. Johns Hopkins describes both as standard options when non-surgical measures have not controlled cubital tunnel syndrome. Because the nerve is deliberately handled, some tingling afterward is close to universal.

Fracture surgery on the inner elbow is the next group. Plates and screws placed on the medial side sit near the nerve, and the swelling that follows a broken bone adds pressure of its own. Surgeons sometimes move the nerve aside during these repairs and mention this in the operation note.

Elbow replacement, tennis-elbow or golfer’s-elbow tendon releases, and arthroscopy, the keyhole technique using a camera, can each irritate the nerve through swelling or positioning even when it is never touched directly. MedlinePlus lists elbow fracture and prolonged pressure among recognized causes of ulnar nerve dysfunction.

One category catches people by surprise: surgery elsewhere in the body. Lying on an operating table with the arm tucked or bent for hours can compress the nerve at the elbow. Postoperative ulnar neuropathy after unrelated operations is a well-documented event, which is why anesthesia teams pad and position arms so carefully. If your tingling began after an operation on your knee or abdomen, the same principles in this article still apply, and the same team should hear about it.

How ulnar nerve decompression and transposition actually work

Picture the nerve as an electrical cable running through a conduit that has grown too narrow. Every bend of the elbow stretches the cable and squeezes it against the walls. Over months, the insulation frays and the signal weakens. Surgery aims to give the cable room, or to reroute it around the bend altogether.

In a simple decompression, the surgeon makes an incision along the inner elbow, finds the nerve, and divides the roof of the cubital tunnel along with any tight bands above and below it. The nerve stays where it is. This is the least disruptive approach and is often chosen when the nerve is compressed but does not slip out of its groove.

In an anterior transposition, the nerve is lifted from behind the bony bump and laid in a new bed in front of it. Bending the elbow now slackens the nerve rather than pulling it taut. The nerve may be settled just under the skin or tucked beneath a flap of muscle. Cleveland Clinic notes that the choice depends on how unstable the nerve is and on the surgeon’s assessment during the operation.

A third option removes part of the bony bump itself so the nerve has a shallower path. Whichever technique is used, the procedure is typically done as a day case under regional or general anesthesia, and the wound is closed with stitches and a bulky dressing or soft splint.

What the operation does not do is instantly repair the nerve. It removes the cause. The nerve then begins its own slow work, which is why the sensations in the weeks afterward matter so much and why they follow a timeline rather than a switch.

Who is usually offered nerve surgery, and who is asked to wait

Surgery on the ulnar nerve is rarely the first step. Johns Hopkins and Cleveland Clinic both describe a stepwise approach, and knowing where you were on that ladder helps you interpret what you feel afterward.

People usually asked to try non-surgical care first have intermittent tingling, symptoms brought on by bending the elbow or leaning on it, and normal strength. Their teams typically suggest avoiding prolonged elbow flexion, padding the elbow at a desk, and wearing a soft splint or towel wrap at night to keep the arm straighter. Nerve conduction studies, tests that measure how fast electrical signals travel through the nerve, may be arranged to confirm where the compression sits. Many people improve with these measures alone.

Surgery is more often discussed when symptoms persist despite a fair trial of those measures, when numbness has become constant rather than intermittent, or when there is measurable weakness or visible wasting of the small hand muscles. Constant numbness and muscle loss suggest fibers are being damaged, and surgeons tend to act before that loss becomes fixed.

A few groups are asked to wait or reconsider. Someone whose symptoms have another explanation, such as nerve irritation in the neck or a nerve disorder from diabetes, may need that addressed first. Active infection, poorly controlled medical conditions, or an unclear diagnosis usually mean more investigation rather than an operation. Smoking and diabetes do not rule surgery out, but MedlinePlus notes both slow nerve recovery, and teams factor them into the conversation.

None of this is a checklist for deciding alone. It is the shape of a discussion your treating team has already had with you, and it explains why two people with the same operation can be told to expect quite different recoveries.

Tingling after elbow surgery that usually settles: the ordinary pattern

There is a rhythm to expected tingling, and once you know it, the first weeks are far less alarming.

The first wave often has nothing to do with the operation itself. Many elbow procedures are done with a regional nerve block, an injection that numbs the whole arm. As it wears off over the following hours, sensation returns unevenly, with prickling, heat, and a heavy, foreign feeling in the hand. This is anesthesia leaving, not a nerve in trouble, and it passes within a day or so.

The second wave belongs to swelling. Tissue fluid peaks over the first few days, and a nerve that has just been handled is exquisitely sensitive to pressure. Tingling in the ring and little fingers tends to be worse when the arm hangs down, better when it rests on a pillow above heart level, and worse again late in the day. Elevation and gentle finger movement, as advised by your team, usually take the edge off.

The third wave is the strangest. As a compressed nerve recovers, people often report more sensation than before, not less: zings when the elbow is tapped, a crawling feeling along the forearm, hypersensitivity of the skin around the scar. Mayo Clinic describes these as typical signs of regenerating nerve fibers. Unpleasant, yes, but they are what recovery feels like from the inside.

What unites these patterns is direction. The sensations fluctuate, then trend downward over weeks. They stay within the ulnar nerve’s territory, the little finger and the outer half of the ring finger. Strength does not decline. When tingling behaves like this, most surgical teams simply want to hear about it at the scheduled follow-up rather than by urgent call.

Cubital tunnel syndrome symptoms: why the old feeling does not vanish overnight

Cubital tunnel syndrome is the name for ulnar nerve compression at the elbow, and it is the second most common nerve entrapment in the arm after carpal tunnel syndrome, according to Cleveland Clinic. Its signature symptoms are the ones many patients hope surgery will erase by the time the dressing comes off.

Before surgery, people typically describe numbness or tingling in the ring and little fingers, an ache along the inner elbow, and symptoms that flare when the elbow stays bent, on the phone, driving, or sleeping with the arm curled. In longer-standing cases, Johns Hopkins notes a weakened grip, clumsiness with small objects, and difficulty spreading or pinching the fingers. In advanced cases, the small muscles between the knuckles can visibly thin.

Here is the honest part. Decompression relieves pressure the moment the tunnel is opened. Sensation does not follow the same timetable. If nerve fibers were merely squeezed, tingling may ease within weeks. If fibers had died back and must regrow, numbness can persist for months while regeneration catches up, and the tingling described earlier may briefly intensify before it fades.

This is why surgeons are careful with expectations. The goal of the operation is to stop the process getting worse and to give the nerve the best chance to recover. How much recovers depends heavily on how long and how severely the nerve was compressed before surgery. Long-standing numbness and established muscle wasting recover less predictably than intermittent symptoms of recent onset, a point made plainly in the MedlinePlus entry on ulnar nerve dysfunction.

Knowing that your pre-operative symptoms are allowed to linger, while slowly improving, is what stops the ordinary course of recovery from feeling like failure.

Settle or report? A side-by-side guide to what you are feeling

Words on a page cannot examine your hand, and the table below is not a diagnostic tool. It does reflect how surgical teams generally sort the sensations patients describe in the first weeks, drawing on guidance from Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and MedlinePlus. When in doubt, the right column wins and you make the call.

What you notice	Usually settles	Usually worth reporting
Location	Little finger and ring finger only	Spreading to the thumb, index, or whole hand
Direction over time	Fluctuates, then eases week by week	Steadily worsening, or new numbness appearing after a good start
Strength	Unchanged or slowly improving	New weakness, dropping objects, fingers drifting into a claw shape
Pain	Aching and scar tenderness controlled by the plan you were given	Severe, escalating pain out of proportion to the wound
Hand and fingers	Mild swelling that improves with elevation	Cold, pale, or blue fingers; swelling that keeps rising under a tight dressing
Wound	Pink edges, small amount of dry crusting	Spreading redness, warmth, pus, foul smell, or the wound opening
Whole body	Tired for a few days	Fever, chills, or feeling generally unwell
Timing	Worse late in the day and with the arm hanging down	Sudden change within hours, especially after a fall or a knock

Two patterns deserve a second look because they sit in between. Numbness on the skin of the forearm, away from the fingers, is common after transposition and is discussed in its own section below. Sharp electrical zings when the scar is tapped are usually a sign of regenerating fibers rather than a problem. Neither replaces a conversation at your follow-up, but neither is typically a same-day emergency.

How long does the ulnar nerve take to heal, and what is a realistic ulnar nerve release recovery time?

The most honest answer has a number in it and a caveat around it.

Nerve fibers that have been damaged but not cut regrow from the point of injury toward the fingertips at roughly one inch per month, about a millimeter a day, according to Mayo Clinic’s guidance on peripheral nerve injuries. The elbow is a long way from the little finger. Measured along the forearm and hand, that journey can take many months, which is why sensation returning to the fingertip is often the last milestone rather than the first.

That figure applies to fibers that must regrow. Fibers that were only compressed and kinked can conduct again within days to a few weeks once the pressure is off. Most people experience a blend: quick early relief of some symptoms, then a slow tail of improvement.

Recovery from the operation itself runs on a shorter clock. Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins describe wound healing over a couple of weeks, gradual return of elbow motion over several weeks, and a return to heavier lifting and sport that varies with the procedure and the person. Transposition tends to need a slightly more protected early period than simple decompression because the nerve is settling into a new bed.

Several things shift these ranges. Age slows regeneration. Diabetes and smoking reduce blood supply to nerve tissue, and MedlinePlus lists both among factors that worsen outcomes. The severity and duration of compression before surgery matters most of all; a nerve squeezed for years has further to come back than one compressed for months.

Your surgeon will give you ranges tailored to your findings at operation, and those ranges deserve more weight than any general figure here. What every figure shares is patience measured in months, not weeks, for the nerve, even when the elbow itself feels recovered.

What the first days and weeks usually look like

Recovery has stages that most teams describe in similar terms, though the timing they give you will be specific to your operation.

The first two or three days are about swelling control and comfort. The arm is usually wrapped in a bulky dressing or soft splint, sometimes with the elbow held gently bent. Elevation on pillows, keeping the hand above the level of the heart when resting, is the single most effective thing you can do for tingling in this window. Finger wiggling, if your team has cleared it, keeps fluid moving. Pain is generally managed with the plan given at discharge; if that plan is not holding, the prescribing clinician wants to know rather than have you push through.

The first two weeks bring the dressing change and, often, removal of stitches. Cleveland Clinic notes that people are usually encouraged to begin gentle elbow bending and straightening in this period to prevent stiffness and to stop the nerve becoming stuck in scar tissue. Tingling frequently spikes with these first movements and settles again; that is the nerve gliding, not tearing.

Weeks two to six typically add strengthening exercises and a gradual return to light daily tasks. Scar tenderness and hypersensitivity are at their most annoying here, and hand therapists often teach desensitization, rubbing the area with progressively rougher fabrics to calm the skin’s response.

Beyond six weeks, most restrictions lift according to the surgeon’s protocol, while the nerve continues its slower recovery quietly in the background.

Throughout, one paragraph of caution applies: a dressing that feels tighter by the hour, fingers turning pale or cold, spreading redness, fever, or a sudden new weakness are not part of any stage and should be reported the same day.

Numbness after ulnar nerve transposition: the forearm puzzle nobody mentions

A specific complaint comes up so often after transposition that it deserves its own explanation. The fingers may be improving, yet a patch of skin on the inner forearm, below the elbow, feels numb or oddly wooden. Some people describe it as a rectangle of skin that belongs to someone else.

This is usually not the ulnar nerve at all. The skin over the inner elbow and forearm is supplied by small branches of a different nerve, the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve, which crosses exactly where the transposition incision is made. These branches are fine, easily stretched, and sometimes unavoidably divided during the approach to the ulnar nerve. Because they only carry sensation from a patch of skin, their injury causes numbness or tingling in that patch without affecting the fingers or the hand muscles.

The distinction matters for two reasons. First, skin numbness on the forearm is not a sign that the operation on the ulnar nerve went wrong; it is a known consequence of reaching it. Second, it follows its own course. Sensation often partially returns over months as neighboring skin nerves take over, though a small permanent patch of altered feeling is common and many people stop noticing it.

Occasionally these small branches form a tender knot called a neuroma, which produces a sharp, localized electric jolt when the scar is pressed. Mayo Clinic lists neuroma formation among the recognized outcomes when small nerves are cut. Most are managed with desensitization and time; a persistently painful one is something to raise at follow-up.

If forearm numbness is accompanied by worsening finger numbness, weakness, or a claw posture, the picture changes and belongs in the report-it column. On its own, it is the price of the road the surgeon had to take.

How to sleep after ulnar nerve surgery when the tingling is loudest at night

Night is when tingling shouts. Lying still lets swelling pool, and the natural sleeping posture, arms curled up under the pillow, bends the elbow to exactly the angle that stretches the ulnar nerve. People who were used to waking with numb hands before surgery often expect the first nights afterward to be the same, and sometimes they are.

Position is the main lever. Sleeping on your back with the operated arm resting on one or two pillows, hand slightly higher than the elbow and elbow slightly higher than the shoulder, uses gravity to drain fluid and reduces overnight tingling. A splint or bulky dressing, if your team provided one, keeps the elbow from curling. Some therapists suggest a rolled towel loosely wrapped around the elbow once the dressing comes off, the same trick Cleveland Clinic describes for non-surgical management, to discourage deep bending without forcing the joint straight.

Side sleeping is harder in the early weeks. Lying on the operated side puts pressure on the wound; lying on the other side lets the arm fall forward and bend. If you must, a body pillow hugged in front keeps the elbow supported and open.

Timing of comfort measures matters too. Doing your prescribed elevation and gentle movement in the hour before bed, rather than during the day only, often makes the first hours of sleep quieter. If pain medicine is part of your discharge plan, its timing relative to bedtime is a question for the prescriber, not something to adjust alone.

Waking with tingling that fades within minutes of moving and elevating the arm is expected. Waking with a hand that stays numb, weak, or cold after you have changed position is different and should be mentioned to your team.

What people often get wrong about tingling after elbow surgery

Recovering patients swap advice in waiting rooms and online, and several confident claims do not survive contact with the evidence.

“If it still tingles at two weeks, the surgery failed.” Two weeks is early in nerve time. Fibers that must regrow are traveling at about an inch a month by Mayo Clinic’s estimate, and the fingertips are the last stop. Direction of change over months, not the presence of tingling at a fortnight, is what surgeons watch.

“More tingling means more damage.” Often the opposite. Zings, buzzing, and hypersensitivity frequently mark fibers reconnecting. Steady, spreading numbness with weakness is the concerning pattern; noisy sensation in the right territory is usually recovery.

“Keep the elbow completely still so the nerve can heal.” Immobility invites stiffness and lets the nerve become tethered in scar. Cleveland Clinic describes early gentle motion, as directed by the surgical team, as part of standard aftercare. The protective period is real but brief, and your team defines it.

“Numbness on my forearm means the ulnar nerve was cut.” That patch is nearly always the small skin nerves crossed by the incision, as the previous section explains. The ulnar nerve serves the fingers, not the forearm skin.

“Vitamins will speed the nerve up.” Some supplements are marketed for nerve health. A confirmed deficiency, for example of vitamin B12, can cause neuropathy and is worth treating, but the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements does not support routine supplementation accelerating recovery from surgical nerve compression in people with normal levels. Ask your team before adding anything.

“Once the elbow feels fine, the nerve is fine.” The joint recovers on a schedule of weeks; the nerve on a schedule of months. Feeling well is a good sign, not a finish line.

Questions to ask your care team before you leave and at follow-up

Surgeons answer the questions they are asked. Bringing a short list means the answers you take home are the ones you need on a difficult night.

Before discharge, the most useful questions concern your specific operation. Ask which procedure was actually performed, since plans sometimes change once the nerve is seen. Ask how the nerve looked, whether it was flattened, scarred, or unstable, because that shapes your expected recovery. Ask what was done to any small skin nerves, so forearm numbness does not frighten you later.

On the practical side, ask which sensations the team considers expected for the first two weeks and which they want a same-day call about, and get the number to call, including out of hours. Ask when the dressing may be changed, when you may bend the elbow and how far, and whether a splint is to be worn day and night or at night only. Ask what a normal-looking wound will be, and what an infected one would look like on your skin tone.

At follow-up, shift to trajectory. Ask whether the sensation and strength you describe are tracking as they would expect for your findings. Ask whether nerve conduction studies will be repeated and, if so, when. Ask which activities are now unrestricted and which still carry risk to the healing nerve or repaired bone.

Two questions people rarely ask but should: what would make the team consider a further procedure, and what does a plateau look like versus a nerve that has stopped recovering? Knowing the team’s own thresholds turns months of waiting from anxious guesswork into shared observation. Every decision along that path remains theirs to make with you.

When to call your doctor: red-flag signs after elbow surgery

Most tingling after elbow surgery belongs in the settle column, and most calls to surgical teams end with reassurance. Those calls are still worth making. The signs below are the ones surgeons, and the guidance from Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and MedlinePlus, consistently want reported without waiting for the next appointment.

Call the same day, or seek urgent care if you cannot reach the team, for any of the following:

• Fingers that turn pale, blue, or cold, or a dressing that feels progressively tighter with swelling rising above it, since circulation may be compromised.
• New weakness: dropping objects, inability to spread the fingers, or the ring and little fingers curling into a claw posture that was not there before.
• Numbness or tingling that spreads beyond the ring and little fingers to the thumb, index finger, or whole hand, or that steadily worsens over days rather than fluctuating.
• Severe pain that escalates despite the plan you were given, particularly pain out of proportion to what the wound looks like.
• Spreading redness, warmth, thick discharge, a foul smell, or the wound edges separating.
• Fever, chills, or feeling generally unwell, which can signal infection even when the wound looks calm.
• A sudden change after a fall, a knock to the elbow, or a splint slipping.
• Calf pain, chest pain, or breathlessness, which are rare after arm surgery but are emergencies in their own right.

Bring anything else that troubles you to the scheduled follow-up: forearm skin numbness, scar hypersensitivity, night tingling that eases with position, or worry that progress has stalled. None of these is a failure of the operation or of you. The treating team has the operation note, the examination, and the tests, and every decision about what happens next rests with them.

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to recover from ulnar nerve release surgery?

The wound and elbow usually recover over several weeks, while the nerve itself can take months. Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins describe stitches out and gentle motion within about two weeks, progressive activity over the following weeks, and heavier use once the surgeon clears it. Nerve sensation follows a slower track because regrowing fibers travel roughly an inch a month, so improvement in the fingertips often continues long after the elbow feels normal.

How long does it take for the ulnar nerve to heal after surgery?

It depends on how the nerve was injured. Fibers that were only compressed can conduct again within days to weeks once the pressure is released. Fibers that died back must regrow from the elbow toward the fingers at about one millimeter a day, according to Mayo Clinic, which translates to many months before fingertip sensation is fully reassessed. Age, diabetes, smoking, and how long the nerve was compressed before surgery all influence the pace.

Is numbness after ulnar nerve transposition normal?

Some numbness is expected, and its location tells you a lot. Persistent ring and little finger numbness that slowly improves reflects the ulnar nerve recovering. Numbness on the skin of the inner forearm usually comes from small sensory branches crossed during the incision and often partially fades over months. Numbness that spreads to other fingers, worsens steadily, or comes with weakness should be reported to your surgical team rather than watched at home.

How to sleep after ulnar nerve transposition?

Most teams suggest sleeping on your back with the operated arm supported on pillows so the hand sits above the heart, which reduces overnight swelling and tingling. A splint or loosely wrapped towel around the elbow discourages the deep bending that stretches the nerve. Side sleeping is easier later; a body pillow hugged in front keeps the elbow open if you must. Follow the specific positioning instructions your surgeon gave you for your procedure.

What are the most common symptoms of cubital tunnel syndrome?

Tingling or numbness in the ring and little fingers, an ache along the inner elbow, and symptoms that flare when the elbow stays bent are the classic features described by Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins. Longer-standing compression can add a weaker grip, clumsiness with small objects, difficulty spreading the fingers, and visible thinning of the small hand muscles. A clinician confirms the diagnosis with examination and, often, nerve conduction studies.

Why is my tingling worse a few weeks after surgery than right afterward?

A temporary increase is common and often marks recovery rather than harm. As compressed fibers regain function and damaged ones regrow, they misfire, producing zings, buzzing, and skin hypersensitivity that Mayo Clinic describes as typical of regenerating nerves. Early elbow movement can also provoke brief spikes as the nerve begins gliding again. The pattern to report is steady worsening with spreading numbness or new weakness, not noisy sensation in the expected fingers.

Can tingling after elbow surgery be permanent?

Sometimes, particularly when the nerve was severely or long compressed before surgery, or when muscle wasting was already present. MedlinePlus notes that recovery from ulnar nerve dysfunction depends heavily on the cause and its duration. Small patches of altered skin sensation near the scar are common and often stop being noticeable. Your surgeon can give a realistic outlook based on how the nerve looked at operation and how your sensation and strength change at follow-up.

What does an ulnar nerve claw hand look like and why does it matter?

It describes the ring and little fingers bending at the middle joints while the knuckles hyperextend, because the small hand muscles the ulnar nerve controls have weakened. Appearing or worsening after surgery, it signals the nerve is not conducting to those muscles and is one of the clearest reasons to contact your surgical team the same day. Pre-existing clawing from long-standing compression may improve slowly or persist, which your surgeon will have discussed.

Should I keep my elbow still to protect the nerve?

Usually not for long. Cleveland Clinic describes gentle bending and straightening beginning within the first couple of weeks after decompression, under the surgical team’s direction, to prevent stiffness and to stop the nerve becoming stuck in scar tissue. A brief protected period is standard, and transposition sometimes needs slightly longer than simple release. The exact timeline for your procedure comes from your surgeon or hand therapist, not from a general rule.

Do vitamins or supplements help the ulnar nerve heal faster?

There is no good evidence that supplements speed recovery from surgical nerve compression in people with normal nutrient levels. A genuine deficiency, such as low vitamin B12, can itself cause neuropathy and is worth identifying and treating, which the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements discusses. Beyond that, the nerve’s regrowth rate is set by biology. Mention any supplement you are considering to your team, since some interact with medicines used around surgery.

References

• Ulnar nerve dysfunction: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
• Pins and needles: NHS

This article is for general information only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please consult a qualified doctor about your individual situation.