Pain in your thumb and first two fingers? Muscles cause more pain in your body than they get credit for. Sometimes it's a "tight" muscle and sometimes trigger points are responsible. Trigger points are highly irritable (crabby) areas in muscles that cause pain elsewhere.
There is a muscle in back of your collar bone called the subclavius. (That name means behind your collar bone--easy, huh?)
Press your finger or thumb (if you can) under the mid-point of your collar bone on the side where you have symptoms and pain. Press in and upward in the middle part of the bone. Is it really
tender? The reason is because there is stuff going on--tight muscles.
We often don't know that something is going on with a muscle until someone presses into it. Tenderness is a clue. If you don't feel tenderness, you may not be applying enough pressure. Ask someone else to help. (But not if they are mad at you.) :)
The subclavius can be responsible for pain in the front side of your arm (if your hand is on your lap, palm up) and in your thumb and in the first two fingers.
Isn't it interesting how far from the subclavius the symptoms are? That's how muscles work. That's how your body works.
That's why I wrote the Uncommon Cure for Carpal Tunnel Pain. I wanted you to how your body works so you understand WHY you have pain and WHAT you can do to get rid of pain in your hand.
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