Funny bone where is it

Moral of the story: Stop doing the thing you're doing, it's causing damage. Nerve pain is a bit different. The pain is still coordinated by a nerve, but the irritation or damage is occurring directly to the nerve itself. In addition, the pain feels different — more electric, burning or stinging. In the case of hitting your funny bone, squashing your ulnar nerve into your medial epicondyle bone is irritating.

And you feel this nerve pain in the areas where your ulnar nerve provides sensation, resulting in an unpleasant, shocking sensation shooting down your forearm and into your fingers.

Fortunately, the pain that comes with hitting your funny bone is temporary. As soon as you shake things off, it's like nothing ever happened.

No ice pack or bandaid needed. There are a few things about our bodies that, in one way or another, can be considered funny. Where is your funny bone? Funny you should ask. Why does hitting your "funny bone" hurt different?

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Others instead argue that the name is derived from the funny, tingly feeling you get when you strike it the wrong way. Using a phone for long periods of time can have an effect on the ulnar nerve Credit: Getty Images. The ulnar nerve begins in the spine and branches out through the shoulder and down the arm, ending ultimately in the little finger and the adjacent ring finger. As the bundle of neurons travels down your arm, layers of bone and muscle offer protection as it sends and receives signals to and from the muscles of the forearm and the hand.

The problem is that as the ulnar nerve passes the elbow it travels behind a knob of the humerus called the medial epicondyle and through a small, 4mm-long channel called the cubital tunnel, right next to the olecranon , the bony hook where the radius and ulna meet the humerus.

And in that spot, the nerve is sandwiched between the bone and the skin, without much in the way of padding or protection. And when that happens, you get that familiar sensation of hitting your funny bone; that odd mix of numbness and tingling. But as bad as that sounds, for most people the funny feeling they get from striking the ulnar nerve is but a fleeting sensation.

After you rub your elbow for a few minutes, the feeling usually passes.