Patience may denote calm, self-possessed, and unrepining bearing of pain, misfortune, annoyance, or delay; or painstaking and untiring industry or (less often) application in the doing of somehing: to bear afflictions with patience.
Â« Carpal Tunnel Interview on Blog Talk Radio | Main | Self Care is Critical for Carpal Tunnel & Thoracic Outlet Symptoms Â». If you have pain in your thumb, maybe it seems like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but... There are lots of reasons why you can have pain in your thumb, and most of them involve your muscles! Let's count the ways... There are muscles on the outside of your lower arm that cause pain in your thumb. There are muscles on the underside, or palm side, of your arm that refer pain into your thumb. Also, the muscles on the palm side of your thumb cause thumb pain. But, wait! There's more!
The nerve also controls the muscles around the base of the thumb. The flexor tendons that bend the fingers and thumb also travel through the carpal tunnel. Cause of Carpal Tunnel. Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when the tissues surrounding the flexor tendons in the wrist swell and put pressure on the median nerve.