What Actually Causes Numb Hands and Tingling Feet?

Numbness and tingling in the hands and feet is one of the most common things I get asked about, and one of the least explained. In this episode I go through how the nervous system actually produces those symptoms — why a pinched nerve in the neck shows up in your fingers, why one in the low back shows up in your toes, and why that pins-and-needles feeling is the same thing that happens when your leg falls asleep. I've also just published the booklet this comes from, and there's a free webinar coming up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE WEBINAR Tuesday, September 22, 2026 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern · Online · Free We'll cover how numbness and tingling develops, how it gets assessed, and what can be done about it — chiropractic care, laser, shockwave, orthotics, nutrition, and exercises you can do on your own. Register free: https://linktr.ee/tuttstreetfamilychiropractic ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE BOOKLET Numb Hands, Tingling Feet — paperback and Kindle, out now on Amazon. linktr.ee/tuttstreetfamilychiropractic ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 The book is live 0:30 Webinar date and time 0:41 What the book looks like 1:24 Where to find everything 1:41 How to register 1:53 So what actually causes it? 2:15 The nervous system, briefly 2:24 Peripheral nerves: neck to fingers, low back to toes 2:57 Pins and needles, and the crossed-leg feeling 3:40 What the webinar covers 4:18 How to get a ticket 4:48 Where else to find the podcast 5:14 How to get a copy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. Cary Yurkiw has practised chiropractic at Tutt Street Family Chiropractic in Kelowna, British Columbia, for thirty years. This is general information about how nerve symptoms work. It is not individual medical advice and it does not replace being assessed by a clinician who can examine you.