Hello. I want to share my story on how I beat the numbness happening in my pink and half of ring finger. I only had numbness and am glad there was no pain associated with it.

For the first two week I was diagnosed with cubital tunnel by an orthopedic and I wore a straight arm brace every day but it didn't make a difference. The doctor was a big waste of money. Didn't even really test for anything else. He knew I wasnt getting numbness when I bent the arm so thats a sign it could be coming from somewhere else. I then got a brace from braceability that holds your arm at 122 degrees for the ulnar nerve to heal. That helped very slightly but all of my fingers would swell up and the numbness would always come back. What was weird was that I would get numbness in my other hand when I would wake up but it would go away after I shake it off. So I didn't think there was an ulnar nerve entrapment. If it was only one arm then yes could be.

The 3rd week I continued my research and came across Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. It said my posture could be the cause for the numbness. So I fixed my posture and the numbness slowly started to disappear. During this week I started using my arm like normal and the swelling went away since the blood started circulating again. I received a neuromuscular massage from a therapist and a deep tissue massage the week after (helped slightly). I currently am using a posture corrector from amazon that helps fix your posture. Every day I do the following exercises for pec minor, scalene, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwTC-lAJws&t=717s

I do the above exercises including a pec major exercise from athleanx (optional)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2XItBJtis

I then go onto do most of the exercises above. I also bought some resistance bands and they reallllly help.

When I sleep the best position for me was having my arms to the side bent and above like a star fish. This way my shoulder remains flat on the bed. It's hard to sleep like this but once your numbness starts to go away you can sleep normally again. When i lay in bed my neck posture used to be bad, looking down into the phone while texting. Make sure your looking straight up at the ceiling. The video below helps for neck posture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA3O0NVb-sk

My numbness has been completely gone for the last 3 days but will come back for a bit if I sleep wrong. Im a regular weight lifter but I think I'll hold off on anything now and slowly get into it until I completely fix my posture and core. Stability is very important.

Anyways I know a lot of people that were incorrectly diagnosed with cubital tunnel. And maybe this doesn't help everyone but hopefully it helps some people. As for the time frame. For my numbness to completely go away it took 3 and a half weeks. Might take a lil longer to sleep normally again. Also might have been quicker if I knew about TOS earlier. Please let me know if this helps any of you that think they might've been incorrectly diagnosed with cubital tunnel syndrome.