3 months ago I started a new job working in a busy receiving warehouse. Before this I had very little exercise. First day, I helped unload a tractor trailer and sorted 550 boxes of various sizes and weights. third day I slip in a freight elevator from a loose bolt on the floor. Landing between to pallets of boxes on my back hard. Not sure how I landed the way I did. Two days later I wake up in the morning and both hands are on fire and they feel like thousands of pins and shattered glass. I don t know what to hoping around trying to get this pain away. I never had any carpal tunnel issues. Neurology ran tests and said I had bilateral carpal tunnel. Question: I thought I had acute bilateral CTS. The doctors avoided the subject and said I had to have had CTS in the past. How rare or is it even possible that the fall or the strenuous work could have caused it?