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 pain in your carpal tunnel is due to excess pressure in your wrist and on the median nerve. Inflammation can cause swelling. The most common cause of this inflammation is an underlying medical condition that causes swelling in the wrist, and sometimes obstructed blood flow.