good day, Elena!
A year and a half ago, my back and neck hurt badly, I woke up in the morning and could not move my neck, a swelling appeared in the area of the left shoulder blade, I bought diclofenac ointment, ketonal, smeared it on the shoulder blade, applied nanoplast, the pain subsided, but then it appeared even stronger, I I went to the clinic, they gave me blockades, they said it was myositis, but I also had an MRI of the thoracic region including the neck, they didn’t find anything significant, they wrote osteochondrosis in the initial stage, scoliosis, but you are not 5 years old. in a word, after the novocaine blockades everything calmed down for six months. Six months later, pain and crunching appeared again in all joints, to be honest, all employees at work hear the crunching at work with any movement, and again the left shoulder blade began to hurt and goes to the right + the neck began to pull, it radiated into the left hand, and they became numb with in the morning a couple of times with several fingers, I went for a massage of my back and neck, the crunching became even stronger, crunching in my leg in the groin area was added, but now I can expand my shoulder blades, otherwise it’s like I’m twisted. I found a nodule in the muscle under my left armpit, I ran to the surgeon, I think maybe because of it, she assured me that it was the head of the muscle, you’ll start playing sports and it won’t be palpable (lymph nodes are normal). I went to play sports on the sly, exercise machines and a swimming pool. but the body crunches, especially the left shoulder, and sometimes it radiates into the arm. The crunch is strong. I bought Chondroxide + glucosamine + omega 3, I take it for the third day until the pain subsides, but it’s a little better. I take sedatives. Can you please tell me what to do? Where can I go, maybe get an MRI of the cervical spine? A friend recommended that I undergo shock wave therapy on the scapula and shoulder area. I asked my massage therapist if he felt anything wrong with my back, he said that everything was fine, I needed to exercise. My height is 178, my weight is 60. I go to sports and think that it won’t get worse, but the only plus is that I have pumped up my arms, legs and abs. Tell me, please, what to do? I’m 32 years old and I’m like a wreck.
Neither the doctors nor the massage therapist will tell you the truth, it is not profitable for them. you are paying for their services. And now I will list your problems and your mistakes, and you will use logic and finally understand where to direct your efforts. 1. Initially, from childhood, the entire bone structure of the spine was deformed by scoliosis; usually scoliosis is acquired in the elementary grades of school. 2. You probably lead a sedentary office lifestyle, and your curved spine does not have muscular protection and support, so it is easily destroyed, hence osteochondrosis is a decrease in the height of the intervertebral discs. 3. Once the discs are flattened, space is freed up, and your vertebrae move, and the entire spine is unstable, so the nerves and blood vessels in the cervical and thoracic regions are pinched, hence pain in the shoulder blades, numbness in the fingers. 4. Without movement, the joints simply die, hence the dryness and crunching, because. Without movement, synovial fluid, which is a lubricant and nutritional medium for the joints, is not produced, so the cartilage dries out, cracks, destruction of the articular cartilage occurs and, naturally, crunching occurs. Now you have your entire set and feel like a wreck at your young 32 years old. - A big mistake is your trips to the gym and the pool. Against the background of weakness and imbalance of skeletal muscles, you take and pull iron, which further increases the load on joints that are out of place (due to scoliosis), I think they will not thank you for this. - massage is kneading and temporary improvement of the condition of soft tissues, but not a solution to the problem, and not eliminating the cause of your deplorable condition - I consider swimming to be useless, only the muscles of the arms and legs work there, and the muscles of the torso are not involved at all, the only usefulness is that The spine is slightly and temporarily relieved from the vertical load, and that’s it! SO! you urgently need to start doing therapeutic exercises, namely, safe strength exercises and only LYING UP, and also stretch the spine and also while lying down. You need to form a muscle corset for the spine that will correct your scoliosis, stabilize your spine and protect and support it, but most importantly, you need to stop further destruction of the spine! I have been doing spinal correction for over 30 years and have my own technique; on my website you will find all the necessary exercises. I advise you not to waste precious time, read the materials on my website, and start doing technically correct and safe exercises every day. Remember, the spine supplies the limbs and internal organs with innervation. The jokes are bad with the cervical spine, the joints hurt - this is painful, but not fatal, but the disruption of blood flow to the brain is fraught, this is the risk of a stroke, which is very young today. You need to take care of your own spine in a timely manner, doing not chaotic exercises, but technically correct and targeted ones!
There are a lot of letters. There are also a lot of phone calls. And people come to me from everywhere - even from Vladivostok (and this happened quite recently). And they ask the same question - what to do if your neck hurts and your arms go numb?
Hello, Doctor. I have had neck pain for 5-6 years now. The pain sometimes radiates to the left shoulder joint, to the left shoulder girdle. And in the last 2-3 months I have been waking up with a feeling as if my left hand is not mine at all - it is numb. I went to the doctor, they took an X-ray of my neck, and they said that I had osteochondrosis of the cervical spine and that this was the reason for all my “joys.” The treatment prescribed by the doctor somewhat reduced the pain in the neck and shoulder girdle. But not for long. After only one and a half to two months, the pain returned and began to pester me, as before. But I’m not that many years old - 48 in total. And I still have to work long and hard - my son is studying at the university, and my daughter is finishing school next year and will also continue her studies. My friend told me to use some kind of bisphosphonates in treatment, that it is effective. I went to our pharmacies in Zheleznodorozhny - they said that they did not have such creams and ointments. But pharmacists who work in pharmacies also said that yes, this product is good.
Doctor, tell me, what can help me in this situation? I'm begging you!
Hello, Doctor! Eight years ago, you already helped me out, or rather not me personally, but my mother - she lives in Smolensk. At that time, my mother had severe pain in her knee joint, and on the advice of my mother’s neighbor, the wonderful and kind Anna Georgievna Kondratieva, I wrote you a letter and you responded with detailed recommendations. My mother did everything as you wrote and it helped her like nothing else. She remembers you every day with a kind word.
But now I’m turning to you myself - my neck hurts more and more. My arms began to get very numb in the morning when I was driving in the car - I had to lower them along my body in order to somehow feel them. I can’t pick up a needle with my fingers, I can’t thread a needle—I can’t feel my hands or fingers—they often feel like they belong to someone else. And pain in the neck Oooh, that's something! It happens: it hurts that you can take away the saints. Wherever I was treated, I was in the hospital, I went to the clinic, I was treated in a hospital for one day, and I went to a sanatorium twice.
I won’t say that there was no current from the treatment, but it all comes back. I was told that I had severely damaged intervertebral discs in my neck. It may be necessary to undergo surgery for this reason
Have I heard that there are bisphosphonates that help in these cases? Is it true?
Hello! I want to help you, friends!
In my opinion, you need to focus on restoring normal function of the spine (and, therefore, the spinal cord). And this treatment will have a beneficial effect on all other organs. After all, all our health or ill health is the correct signals from the central nervous system and their correct interpretation by organs and systems.
You, Alexey Alekseevich, and you, Lydia, judging by your letters, have serious problems with the spine, and, most likely, there are protrusions of the intervertebral discs, and maybe even herniated discs in the cervical region with manifestations of pain along the nerve trunks and with impairments in the functioning of the fingers.
Protrusion of an intervertebral disc is a protrusion of it beyond its usual normal position, that is, it, this disc, as a result of destructive events occurring to it, or as they say among doctors, as a result of degenerative-dystrophic changes, begins to collapse, flatten and go beyond the boundaries of the intervertebral disc space, thereby squeezing the nerve roots, causing pain.
Pain is always a danger signal!
A great danger also lies in the fact that this very “flattened” disc constantly injures the myelin sheath of the nerve root and can cause a painful condition that is severe in its consequences - myelopathy.
The constantly injured myelin sheath of the nerve begins to be perceived by its own body as a foreign body, as an enemy, and then the body makes a decision - the enemy must be destroyed and begins this terrible thing - to melt this myelin sheath
God forbid from this all of us
So, in order for all this not to happen, you must first listen and, and what is very important, hear your doctors!
You absolutely must wear (and constantly!) orthopedic insoles in any shoes (including indoor ones). Elderly people need to wear silicone orthopedic insoles because their plantar muscles have become flabby, that is, they have become hypotrophic.
Why do you need to wear orthopedic insoles? Yes, in order to compensate and correct the lost (often completely) arches of the feet. A woman who has had at least one pregnancy or lived more than 40 years has flat feet. This is a reliable fact!
But this remedy helps a lot: fir baths . which are taken for 1.5 months according to the method outlined in my article “How do chronic fatigue syndrome and stress affect the quality of sleep? "
As for bisphosphonates in ointment products, in gel form - this is really a very powerful remedy that has already helped many people!
Following my recommendations will help you, Alexey Alekseevich, and you, Lydia, cope with pain and alleviate your condition.
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Nikolay Kukuliev Profi (649), closed 6 years ago
The fingers of the left hand (little and ring fingers) on the left hand go numb. The work is closely related to the computer and keyboard.
I read somewhere that these are the first signals of improper blood circulation in the brain. I ask knowledgeable people to give adequate questions.
Added 6 years ago
I apologize for the errors in the text, but I think everything is clear to you.
Kajakas Supreme Intelligence (108492) 6 years ago
A common cause of numbness in the hands is compression of the neurovascular bundle in the area of the cervical and brachial plexuses by shortened muscles. The reason for this shortening may be an imbalance in the distribution of muscle load, as well as various external factors: emotional, intoxication, metabolic disorders in the body.
The causes of numbness in the fingers can also include osteochondrosis of the spine, which is accompanied by a narrowing of the intervertebral spaces. As a rule, in the initial stages, such symptoms practically do not appear, but with the progression of osteochondrosis, as well as in the presence of predisposing factors, pain appears in the spine with a return to various parts of the body, numbness of the fingers and toes, coldness of the extremities, dizziness, and tinnitus. With different types of osteochondrosis, the manifestations of the disease (including numbness) are also different:
Symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis: intense pain in the neck and back of the head (can spread to the shoulders, head, arms; the back of the neck and the back of the head often hurt at the same time). headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision, numbness and tingling down the arms to the fingers (sometimes aggravated by lying on your back during sleep). physical weakness of the hands.
Thoracic osteochondrosis: feeling of pain and discomfort in the chest and back, pain in the heart, numbness of the left arm.
Manifestations of lumbar osteochondrosis: pain in the lumbar region, numbness of the legs, dysfunction of the genital organs and the process of urination.
If the cause of numbness is osteochondrosis of the spine, then the process of losing the ability to walk can develop rapidly, or it can proceed slowly.
It all depends on how damaged the spine is.
Fingers may also go numb due to something called carpal tunnel syndrome. Even now many people do not know about it. But the spread of computer technology has sharply increased the number of people suffering from this disease. Typing on a computer keyboard all day long can cause numbness in your fingers and lead to carpal tunnel syndrome. This disease also affects people who make monotonous movements with their brushes. Weavers, carpenters, and violinists are also at risk of this disease. The tendons that move your fingers run through the narrow carpal tunnel. There is also a nerve that controls the thumb muscle and the sensitivity of the palm and fingers. In normal condition it is protected. When the hand works a lot, the tendons swell, the nerve gets pinched, the fingers go numb, and tingling and throbbing pain occurs in the fingers.
Time Master (1396) 6 years ago
That's right. This happens from improper blood circulation when you squeeze them.
iron cucumber Guru (4007) 6 years ago
not necessarily the brain, perhaps something with the blood vessels, for example. In general, or in particular in the fingers. Anyway, it's the circulation, you're right, and the best thing to do is see a doctor
Sophis the Thinker (7411) 6 years ago
This is a circulatory disorder due to problems with the spine (osteochondrosis) or disturbances in the functioning of the heart. In any case, start by visiting a therapist. For me, such phenomena disappeared after several sessions with a good chiropractor.
Grandfather Pavel Enlightened (24443) 6 years ago
This is so, but if from below the nostril / any / there is a desire to actively scratch - you have already
half-prepared for a stroke. I’m not kidding - eighty decades
Sania Sagirova Student (192) 6 years ago
Your problem may well be related to your work; after all, only individual muscles work, which are in constant tension. this may be a variant of ulnar nerve pathology. Regarding osteochondrosis, unfortunately, it develops in almost everyone, especially with a sedentary lifestyle. Don’t worry about the stroke, we’ve all seen enough of advertisements and some programs (((
Obsifly Pro (549) 6 years ago
numbness in the hand (most often the left) occurs in acute forms of circulatory disorders. I'm talking about stroke attacks now. pain in the arm most often radiates from angina pectoris, it seems to me that the problem here is different. namely in osteochondrosis. sedentary work, I probably already had at least scoliosis after school. back swells. In everyday language, pinches appear in the cervical and thoracic spine. Both the blood circulation of the shoulder, forearm and hand are disrupted. and innervation. resulting in numbness. The little and ring fingers go numb, but not the entire hand, since this segment is innervated by certain branches of the nerve. Very often, this numbness occurs when you rest on your hand carelessly while sleeping. The treatment here will either go away on its own, but you will have to wait a very long time. It's all in the spine. Good luck.
Mira Master (1529) 6 years ago
You have osteochodrosis of the spine, I have a similar problem, only the thumb, index and middle fingers are numb - and this indicates that the 6th and 7th vertebrae are inflamed, and you obviously have 8 and beyond, you can’t do without a specialist. Do not be ill!
Pain in the lower extremities, back, neck, and arms can occur for various reasons. Many people attribute discomfort to a busy work schedule, prolonged exposure to an uncomfortable position, or injury. And in most cases, this is true.
But painful discomfort may indicate the onset of severe diseases of the musculoskeletal system or a malfunction of the endocrine system. Therefore, the answer to the question of what to do if your back hurts and your leg is pulled should be given by a specialized specialist in a medical institution.
Most often, pain radiates to the legs due to inflammation of the sciatic nerve. In modern medicine, this pathology is called lumboischialgia. The nature and location of the pain may be different, but the unifying factor is the spread of pain to the lower extremities.
Under certain conditions, such signs can be mixed, which makes diagnosis and prescribing the correct treatment much more difficult.
Normal overexertion during heavy physical activity can cause severe discomfort in the spine. Many athletes suffer from chronic forms of musculoskeletal system diseases. But ordinary people can also get sick while doing everyday things.
Separately, it is necessary to mention the negative impact of frequent emotional overload on health. Stress does not go away without leaving a trace and can affect any system of the body.
What to do if your back hurts and radiates to your leg? First of all, you need to seek help from a medical institution. A vertebrologist treats diseases of the musculoskeletal system. Of course, not every hospital has such a highly specialized specialist. If you cannot find such a doctor, you should make an appointment with a surgeon or neurologist.
The doctor will announce his diagnosis after interviewing the patient (collecting anamnesis), visual examination and additional hardware tests. Most often, radiography of the lumbosacral region or magnetic resonance imaging of the spine is used.
If your back hurts a lot and your leg is pulled, then you need to take the right position. It is best to lie down on a hard surface in a position that is comfortable for you. It is important to understand that you can reduce discomfort only by completely relaxing, and this is impossible when putting pressure on the painful area.
You need to understand that the pain syndrome that occurs due to compression of nerve endings is very difficult to tolerate. Therefore, taking painkillers is allowed. For example, “Aspirin”, “Ibuprofen” or “Ketanova”. Such remedies reduce suffering, but do not in any way affect the source of the pathology.
Many people benefit from cold or warm compresses applied to the area of inflammation. The main thing is not to catch a cold in your back or cause the pain to spread to other areas, which is quite possible due to a sharp improvement in blood circulation.
Therapeutic actions aimed at suppressing the sources of symptoms are prescribed depending on the diagnostic results. Most often, this is:
After the inflammation subsides, non-drug treatment is prescribed. Methods of manual therapy (massage, acupuncture), therapeutic exercises (yoga, swimming) and physiotherapy (UHF, warming) show good results.
It is important to know that back pain radiating to the legs is often recurrent. Therefore, it is necessary to complete the course of treatment regardless of the easing of discomfort.
The occurrence of pain can be prevented by eliminating provoking factors. For example, people at risk should limit physical activity and strictly monitor the temperature in their living space. Representatives of the fair half need to pay attention to their shoes. Walking for a long time in high heels leads to pinched nerve endings.
It is important to monitor the balance of all necessary elements in the daily diet. Firstly, the right menu helps to lose excess weight, and secondly, it saturates the body with vitamins and minerals that ensure the normal development of bone tissue.
Remember that any disease is easier to prevent than to cure. Take care of your health, treat infections in a timely manner, undergo periodic examinations at a medical facility, and back pain will bypass you.
In veterinary medicine, bloating in a rabbit is called gastrointestinal stasis (GIS). This disease bothers animals quite often, since their digestive system has its own characteristics.
The rose is often called the queen of flowers for its beautiful delicate buds and persistent tart aroma. There are garden and indoor varieties of this plant, but all of them are distinguished by lush green foliage and a long flowering period.
MRI is not a cheap pleasure, but in my opinion it is better to play it safe, because if there is a hernia, then you need to be more careful with massage and with manual therapy.
Although I was greedy for quite a long time about an MRI (with my lower back), and most doctors did not advise me, they said that my symptoms did not lead to a hernia, but it turned out that I wasted my time and wasted more money on useless drugs than on an MRI
And I went for a massage with my neck, and I also seemed to get some injections. but then everything went away in about a month. When I spend too much time at the computer, it affects me, of course, but it’s normal.
There is nothing super scary about it, I was still in the hospital for 3 weeks, but this is because the doctors said that it was better to go through the whole complex (physical therapy, massage, exercise therapy for the best result). The scar is small along the spine, about 4 cm, thin.
And not everyone is immediately offered surgery, don’t stress yourself out; in general, it is very rare to operate on hernias in the cervical region, as I was told - there is a more dangerous area there.
Or you can write in a personal message later if you have any other questions
At our clinic, the neurologist is also simply terrible, he refused to give me a referral for an MRI (at that time they even did it for a fee only by referral), tricked me into expensive medications, prescribed NSAIDs in almost triple doses - even the pharmacist at the pharmacy was surprised. IMHO, you should go to a paid, good neurologist to tell him what to examine next, otherwise, from my MRI experience, I advise you to have someone check the blood vessels, but all this is not cheap
Now I’m reading you - after all, everything was completely different for me, firstly, osteochondrosis was already seen on x-rays - both in the cervical region and in the lower back, a hernia is already an extreme stage, it’s unlikely that you have it, even if you have osteochondrosis they don't find it. Secondly, with a hernia or severe osteochondrosis, this usually happens: the neck hurts - the shoulder and arm go numb, the lower back hurts - the leg goes numb. And as I understand, your back hurts in one place, but everything goes numb at once
You could have taken a sick leave - they would have stayed longer and relieved the strain on your back.
If an MRI is not too stressful for you, I would do the lumbar. if you do not want to go to the doctors without further examinations. Forget the neurologist from the clinic, you can immediately see when it is useless to talk to a person. I complained to my friend so much - it’s not getting better, the medications only work temporarily, acupuncture doesn’t help - I kept muttering about osteochondrosis. After the operation, I went to see him once, because he heard about it, and said, “Well, you were in a hurry.” Yeah, we should have spent another 5-10 thousand on his pills, but they would have given him %
The cervical spine plays an extremely important role in everyone's life. It is the basis for the central organs that control the body - the brain and spinal cord. Thanks to its high mobility, the neck allows a person to navigate the surrounding space and quickly respond to external stimuli. And the sections of the digestive tract and respiratory system located here ensure the maintenance of the vital needs of the body.
Every year the number of people experiencing problems with the spine is growing. Pain in the neck and back becomes a frequent complaint when visiting a traumatologist and neurologist. They lead to limited physical activity and decreased quality of life, which gives the problem significant medical and social significance. Everyone who has encountered it would like to know the causes of pain in order to count on proper treatment in the future. And you can consult a doctor in time by understanding what this or that symptom means and what consequences should be expected from it.
Modern life is replete with factors that have an adverse effect on the axial skeleton. The desire for everyday comfort is increasingly combined with inactivity, poor nutrition, excess weight and addictions. Excessive physical exertion and work activities associated with prolonged standing, sitting or uncomfortable positions, with constant exposure, become important factors in the development of pathology of the spinal column. Common diseases, including infectious ones, as well as hereditary predisposition play an important role in this.
Considering the wide list of unfavorable factors that contribute to the appearance of the problems described, almost everyone can be at risk. If your neck hurts, then the cause must be considered as a pathology of the spine, nerve conductors and surrounding soft tissues. First of all, the following conditions should be noted:
Sometimes pain in the neck is reflected in nature - then its source should be sought in the area of the shoulder (periarthritis, osteoarthritis) or chest (intercostal neuralgia). Diseases of the thyroid gland, for example, thyroiditis, can also become a source of unpleasant symptoms. But there are also more serious cases associated with pathology of the cardiovascular system (coronary disease, pulmonary embolism, aortic aneurysm). Therefore, it is imperative to differentiate vertebrogenic pathology from diseases of internal organs.
The cause of back and neck pain is most often inflammatory, traumatic or degenerative-dystrophic processes.
It is known that only a doctor is involved in diagnosing diseases. But among the features of the modern patient, one should note his awareness of his condition. It is much easier when a person understands what is happening to him - this contributes to early detection of pathology, and therefore more effective treatment. And simply for preventive purposes, it would be useful for each person to find out how certain diseases associated with neck pain manifest themselves.
When visiting a doctor, the patient first of all points out those complaints that bother him most. Of course, they are subjective, but they provide the specialist with initial information about the clinical picture of a possible pathology. And the main one among these symptoms is neck pain (cervicalgia). This symptom is nonspecific; therefore, it requires further detail during the survey. Characteristics of pain may vary:
Much of this depends on the type of pathology, its severity, as well as the individual sensitivity threshold. Having clarified all aspects of the pain syndrome, you should move on to other symptoms that are probably present in the patient and complement the clinical picture.
Clinical symptoms are the basis of diagnostic search for any disease, including pathology of the musculoskeletal system.
Vertebrogenic causes of pain are the most common of all existing ones. It is the condition of the spine that should be given priority attention. And the leader among such pathologies is considered to be degenerative diseases - osteochondrosis, disc herniation and spondyloarthrosis. Of course, other conditions also occur.
When your neck hurts, you can think of radicular syndrome, which occurs due to compression of the nerve fibers extending from the spinal cord. Then the symptoms will expand due to the following manifestations:
Another cause of neck pain is muscle spasm. It always accompanies root lesions, but can develop independently of it. With prolonged myotonic syndrome, movements are significantly difficult, and spastic torticollis may appear. Vertebrogenic diseases are characterized by pain when palpating the paravertebral points and longitudinal muscles of the back. The latter are felt as slightly enlarged “rollers”.
Problems of the cervical spine often lead to headaches and dizziness. Disruption of blood flow through the vertebral artery or veins plays a role here. This may be accompanied by tinnitus, flashing spots before the eyes, unsteadiness in gait, and even nausea.
Vertebrogenic conditions very often manifest as neck pain, which is associated with compression of the nerve roots, muscle spasm or vascular disorders.
In the neck and shoulder area there are plexuses from which peripheral nerves extend to the muscles and skin in the corresponding areas. Their inflammation is called radiculitis. And if the spinal roots emerging from the openings of the spinal canal are affected, then radiculitis is diagnosed. The manifestations of these conditions are similar - motor, sensory and autonomic disorders, as in vertebrogenic pathology. And with cervical plexitis, shortness of breath and hiccups often also appear, which indicates damage to the nerve branches leading to the diaphragm.
The neck may hurt after an injury. The most common are bruises and sprains, but there are also more serious situations - vertebral fractures. Traumatic injuries are common in everyday life, sports or work, and their severity varies from mild to severe. The nature of the symptoms depends on this. Basically you have to deal with the following symptoms:
Severe cervical injuries are often accompanied by spinal cord damage. As a result, conduction disorders occur - patients develop paresis or paralysis of the upper and lower extremities, and dysfunction of the pelvic organs. Therefore, spinal injuries often lead to loss of ability to work (disability), and sometimes even have a fatal outcome.
The neck is a very vulnerable part of the spine, which must be protected from injuries that pose a real threat to health and life.
Pain in the neck muscles can be a sign of inflammation (myositis). This pathology develops due to increased and prolonged stress, hypothermia, as a result of the action of infectious (viral or bacterial), toxic and autoimmune factors. Myositis occurs in acute or chronic form and has the following symptoms:
The pain intensifies when palpating soft tissues and when tilting (turning) the head. Purulent inflammation is fraught with further development of an abscess or phlegmon, and the infection can spread to nearby organs or descend down the mediastinum. Cervical myositis can also cause difficulty swallowing or breathing.
To distinguish pain in the neck of vertebrogenic origin from other diseases, including pathologies of internal organs, in addition to a clinical examination, additional diagnostics are required. It includes laboratory and instrumental methods that will provide the doctor with information about the condition of bone structures, nerve conductors and soft tissues, indicating the source of symptoms. Based on the expected condition, the following research methods are indicated:
For differential diagnosis with diseases of the cardiovascular system, ECG and echocardiography are required. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the problem, you may need to consult not only a traumatologist or neurologist, but also a cardio-rheumatologist, an infectious disease specialist, and an endocrinologist. Through the efforts of related specialists, it is possible to establish why the neck hurts and make a correct diagnosis, on the basis of which therapeutic measures will be carried out.
Every person at least once in his life has felt numbness in his fingers or hands. And there is a category of people who encounter such sensations regularly. This category of people needs to pay attention to their health. But you shouldn’t panic; you should understand the reasons for the numbness. Numbness in the hands may be evidence of problems in the cardiovascular system, neuralgic problems or problematic joints.
The index and middle fingers, as well as the ring and little fingers, are most prone to symptoms of numbness. It happens that only one finger or the entire hand is prone to numbness. The right hand goes numb for one reason, and the left for another. Waking up at night or in the morning with a feeling of crawling in the hand, numbness, a person begins to rub his palms and shake his hand to relieve the pain. If this helps, then there is no reason to worry.
If the symptoms recur, and are accompanied by pain and joint mobility is limited, this should alert you.
The leakage can be in one hand or both, or it can migrate from one to the other.
Numbness may be caused by an uncomfortable sleeping place. If you sleep on an orthopedic mattress and pillow, but the symptoms do not go away, then these are problems located within the person.
In patients with osteochondrosis of the cervical spine, their hands constantly become numb at night, during sleep. Their joints also crack. In patients over the age of thirty-five, numbness in the hands during sleep may indicate problems with the thyroid gland or immune system. In younger patients due to damage to the nervous system.
If a patient over 35 years old has protrusion of discs or intervertebral hernia in the cervical spine, joint problems, then one hand or fingers will go numb in a dream. If the patient has, as a background symptom, pain in the shoulder blade, back or neck, they will tell the doctor in which direction to move.
Computer programmers and other office workers experience numbness and pain in their right hand at night when they sleep. This may be due to their professional activities or illness. What should you do in this case? How to determine the cause? This can be determined by exclusion. First you need to reduce the load on your hand and organize your workplace.
If it doesn’t go away, you need to plan a trip to the clinic, because the right hand indicates problems with the joints and spine.
Symptoms of severe numbness during sleep, which is accompanied by weakness in the arm, may indicate a cerebral stroke. This risk group includes patients over 45 years of age and high blood pressure.
With systemic diseases, numbness occurs symmetrically. Migrating pain in both hands, accompanied by thirst or when drinking alcohol, indicates damage to the nerve fibers and polyneuropathy.
In the beginning stage of myocardial infarction, in addition to the fact that the left arm becomes numb at night, strange sensations appear in the heart and shoulder blade and shortness of breath. You should immediately consult a doctor. Treatment is prescribed by a cardiologist.
To detect the cause and begin treatment, the patient is prescribed a number of procedures to facilitate diagnosis:
There are several reasons for this:
Incorrect functioning of the nervous system. As a result, the hands become sore and numb, and the fingers lose sensitivity. The prerequisites may be diseases such as lupus erythematosus, arthritis and others.
Infringement of nerve roots in the thoracic and cervical spine. It can provoke osteochondrosis, fractures, dislocations, neuritis, plexitis.
Circulatory disorders from poor posture, as well as diabetes and anemia.
Impaired tissue nutrition caused by hypovitaminosis and lack of vitamins, group B.
If you hear joints crunching when you turn your head, and pain radiates into your arm, this may be caused by an intervertebral hernia. Joints crack, this is a signal to see a doctor.
With arthrosis, in addition to numbness in the hands, you can hear joints and vertebrae cracking during sleep. The sooner treatment is started, the faster recovery will occur.
A deficiency of B vitamins after 45 years leads to the fact that not only the little finger or other finger, but also the hands, even the entire arm, go numb. What to do? Drink B vitamins and B 12 injections.
If the culprits of the disease are nerves, then the fingers of the left hand constantly go numb during sleep. And, most likely, those nerves that stretch from the neck to the tips of the fingers. Nerve compression by damaged joints or vertebrae causes the hands and fingers to become numb at night. When visiting a doctor, the patient should describe his feelings in as much detail as possible for a more accurate diagnosis. Treatment will be prescribed by a neurologist.
Why do my hands and fingers go numb at night? The most common reason why fingers become numb and a crawling sensation appears is degenerative changes in the joints in the cervical spine. At the same time, at night, the left thumb, index and middle fingers go numb. The outer side of the forearm, shoulder and arm are connected to them.
Treatment for numbness of the hands and fingers depends on the cause that caused it and consists of:
Medical treatment for severe pain may include injections of corticosteroid medications into the area of the injured joint. Trental is prescribed, which stimulates metabolic processes and blood circulation in the tissues of the nervous system.
You need to massage your palm to bring blood and lymph flow to the joints that are crunching. And do simple but useful exercises:
You need to rub your palms against each other for two minutes.
Connect the tips of your fingers and press lightly on them.
For a few minutes, do a light massage on all fingers in turn.
Physiotherapeutic treatment consists of: massage, therapeutic exercises aimed at stretching muscles, reflexology, and joints do not crack.
If you experience recurring symptoms of numbness in your hands and fingers, be sure to consult a doctor.
Alexander, Kaliningrad, 32 years old
Master - exercise therapy instructor
Sincerely, Pluzhnik Elena.
Pain in the back of the head, neck, numbness and burning of the hands does not go away
Hello, I am 29 years old, height 170, weight 60 kg.
I ask for advice from experts. I got sick 10 months ago. Before that, I considered myself a healthy person (except for high myopia)
It all started with an unexpected headache in the back of my head that radiated behind my ears. The next day I felt tension in my neck, followed by numbness in 4-5 fingers of my right hand. The headache has persisted for 10 months now. The muscles of the shoulder girdle are very tense and painful. In addition, there was severe pain in the shoulder girdles, constant pain in the shoulders and a burning sensation in the hands and tongue. Often my arms go numb (completely), there is pain along the spine. The most disturbing thing is the constant headache at the border of the neck and skull, radiating behind the ears, into the temples, into the crown of the head (as I understand it, constant neuralgia of the occipital nerves), which has been hurting for 10 months now..
Painkillers don't help. She treated osteochondrosis, but there was no improvement in 10 months, only deterioration; the hip joints and muscles of the legs and the entire back began to hurt.
Here are the drugs I took:
Lasix, troxevasin, sirdalud - when osteochondrosis was treated.
Diclofenac, ortofen, katadalone, ketanov - painkillers.
Detralex, anavenol, caventon, mildronad.
Xefocam, betaserk, movalis, mydocalm
Now I take fluoxetine, Instenon, Pantogam.
I was treated by chiropractors, massage therapists, physiotherapy - NO EFFECT. The condition is only getting worse. I'd like some advice - what else can I check?
I did 3 MRIs of the brain, cervical, thoracic, and X-rays of the cervical and thoracic regions. They took a puncture of the SM fluid - there were no infections.
An x-ray of the cervical spine with functional tests shows physiological lordosis is straightened. Posterior Kimmerly anomaly. Degenerative-dystrophic changes. Functional instability of C3-C4, C4-C5, C5-C6.
MRI of the brain - on a series of MRI scans of the brain, no evidence was obtained for the presence of a volumetric or focal lesion. The median structures are usually located. Foci with altered signal intensity are not detected. There is an expansion of the temporal horn of the right lateral ventricle. Otherwise, the cerebrospinal fluid spaces (third, fourth ventricles, basal cisterns, as well as subarachnoid spaces) are without pathological changes. The cerebellar tonsils are located directly at the foramen magnum, protruding into it by 3-4 mm. The cistern magna is reduced in size. Otherwise - no special features.
According to MRI of the cervical spine - MRI picture of initial degenerative-dystrophic changes in the intervertebral discs sh.o. call
Please recommend what other examinations can be done; it’s probably not a matter of osteochondrosis, if after 10 months of active treatment it only gets worse. The specialists who looked at me did not see any neurological symptoms, except for muscle tension, they write about cephalgic syndrome against the background of osteochondrosis..
I'm going to do an EMG..What else do you recommend?
The sorceress-evolution does not keep up with the restless man, and here we are, born to run, dance and have fun sex, forced to sit motionless in offices for hours, get bored in the cramped subway and while away the time within four walls. Alas, these are the realities of modern life - people clearly lack mobility and there are often objective reasons for this. But this is not a reason to be discouraged, because you can take an ordinary tennis ball and use it to drive away pain, fatigue and aching joints!
Whether you sit all day or stand, both are bad for your back. Therefore, self-massage will help us, for which we need two ordinary tennis balls and, possibly, an ordinary sock. So that the balls placed in it do not roll away and remain in a single bundle. You need to lie on your back, place the balls above the tailbone on both sides of the spine and roll your whole body up and down. Find a position in which you feel comfortable, which can be done by placing a pillow under your head or shoulders. Do it for a short time, for your own pleasure.
We lie on our backs, put a couple of balls under our neck, each on its own side, optionally in a sock. We stretch our legs and carefully, pushing off with our fingers, move our body forward and up. Your neck should roll over the balls and stretch, you will definitely feel it. In this position, we take a dozen deep breaths and return to the original state.
This part of the body gets tired if a person stays in one position for a long time or wears tight and uncomfortable shoes. The problem can be solved simply - lie down on your side, place a tennis ball under you, above your thigh, and begin to make circular movements with your pelvis. Just first take a stable position so as not to fall off the ball. We make a dozen clockwise rotations, then the same number counterclockwise, turn over to the other side and repeat.
If there is no one to massage your stiff shoulders, you need to take matters into your own hands and involve a ball in solving the problem. Lie on your side, legs bent, the ball is between the shoulder blade and the spine. Gently, without sudden movements, we roll in a circle, feeling how the stiff muscles are warming up. Turn over to the other side and repeat.
In case of fatigue or knee pain, always keep a ball at hand. All you need to do is hold it directly under your knee and bend your leg as if you were trying to crush sports equipment. Squeeze, hold and count to ten, release and rest for 10 seconds, then repeat. And so on 8-10 times, after which we move on to massaging the second leg.
We take off our shoes, place a ball on the floor, step on it, but do not bear the entire weight of the body, but only apply light pressure. Or not lightly - it depends on your feelings and desire to massage your feet. Using sliding movements back and forth, we roll the ball with our feet, paying attention to those areas that feel the most “squeezed.” Don't forget about the second leg!
Are your brushes already cramping from this computer mouse? It doesn’t matter - we sit on the floor, place our palm on the ball, cover it with the other and transfer our body weight to our hands, as if trying to crush the toy. Then, in the same position, we begin to roll the ball along a certain trajectory so that its movements draw a small star. Right-left, forward-backward, without going beyond the palm. We swap our palms and massage the other hand. It should help.
1. If lying on the floor is uncomfortable, you can replace it with a vertical wall - just put the ball in the desired position and move as described above.
2. Balls may seem hard on your body, but that's the point. After a series of exercises, the muscles will thank you for the load created.
3. It may be tempting to replace hard, squeaky tennis balls with soft rubber ones. Don't fool yourself, this is stupid!