Your hand goes numb at two in the morning. By breakfast, there is nothing left to mention.

So you don't mention it. And then it happens again the following week.

Numbness and tingling are among the most common things people ask a chiropractor about, and among the least explained. Most people are told it is probably nothing. Others end up searching at midnight and frightened by what they find.

This short audiobook starts with one idea: numbness is not a wire failing. It is a report arriving distorted, and the place you feel it is often nowhere near where the trouble began.

Picture a garden hose sputtering at the nozzle. You can spend all afternoon taking the nozzle apart. Forty feet back up the lawn, somebody is standing on the hose.

You will learn:

Why numbness usually arrives before pain

A short, plain list to tell whether your symptom needs urgent attention. Most listeners find they are not on it

The four narrow places along the arm where nerves get crowded, and what your fingers tell you

Why feet differ from hands, and the one foot pattern worth a blood test first

The everyday causes nobody checks: the bag strap, the armrest, the pillow, the shoes

Space, glide and load, the framework behind everything that genuinely helps

A two-week map you can keep in thirty seconds a day

Plain language, real clinical stories, no alarm and no miracle claims. You will finish it able to say, in your own words, where your problem is likely coming from.

That is most of the work. It is also more than most people are ever told.

About the author

Dr. Cary Yurkiw has practised chiropractic in Kelowna, British Columbia for thirty years.

This audiobook is general information about how nerve symptoms work. It is not individual medical advice and does not replace assessment by a clinician who can examine you.