TweetI have a distal median nerve compression in my left arm. It bothers me on and off depending what I am doing. Have you been to a doc? Maybe your nerves are compressed and it is not a tear in the tendon? My doc said it is actuallt coming from my cervicak compressionand traveling down the arem compressing the distal nerve and causing acrpal tunnel. So the area of origination is really fron my neck. You have any neck pain?