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What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Everybody has a “Carpal Tunnel.” Doctors call it the “fibro-osseous canal.” It is a narrow, rigid passage made of bones and ligaments at the base of your hand. It houses various tendons and that all-important median nerve. In Latin, it’s called the canalis carpi or the sulcus carpi. It is the fibro-osseous passageway on the wrist’s palmar side, connecting the distal forearm to the middle compartment of the palm’s deep plane. Whatever you want to call it, this canal is quite narrow. Whenever any of the ten long flexor tendons passing through it swells or become inflamed, the result is that they fill the canal. That results in the median nerve being squeezed.