Why is my arm numb? Causes of arm numbness

If you often experience numbness in your arms, you should be alert to cervical spondylosis, which is the most common disease for people nowadays and is closely related to your daily living habits. The most common symptoms are heaviness in the shoulders and back and numbness in the fingers. Timely treatment is required to avoid worsening of the disease.

1. Main symptoms

The symptoms of cervical spondylosis are very rich, varied and complex. Most patients have mild symptoms at the beginning, which gradually worsen later. Some patients also have severe symptoms. One type is often the main one combined with several other types, which is called mixed cervical spondylosis.

1. Neck and shoulder pain can radiate to the headrest and upper limbs;

2. A feeling of heaviness on one side of the shoulder and back, weakness in the upper limbs, numbness in the fingers, decreased sensation in the skin of the limbs, inability to hold objects, and sometimes unconsciously dropping objects.

3. Its typical severe manifestations are: weakness in the lower limbs, unsteady walking, numbness in both feet, and a feeling of walking on cotton.

4. The most serious cases may even cause loss of control of urination and defecation, sexual dysfunction, or even paralysis of the limbs.

5. Often accompanied by soreness in the head, neck, shoulders, back, and arms, stiff neck, and limited movement.

6. Some are accompanied by dizziness and room spinning. Severe cases are accompanied by nausea and vomiting and are bedridden. A few may have vertigo and cataplexy.

7. When cervical spondylosis involves the sympathetic nerves, dizziness, headache, blurred vision, swelling and dryness of the eyes, inability to open the eyes, tinnitus, ear congestion, imbalance, tachycardia, palpitations, chest tightness, and even gastrointestinal bloating may occur. There are also symptoms such as difficulty swallowing and difficulty in pronunciation.

Most cases are mild at onset and are not taken seriously by people. Most can recover on their own, with symptoms varying from mild to severe. Only when symptoms continue to worsen and cannot be reversed, affecting work and life, will they be taken seriously. If the disease is not cured for a long time, it will cause psychological harm and produce symptoms such as insomnia, irritability, anger, anxiety, and depression.

Second, the prone groups

1. People who keep their head down to read books or sit in the office for a long time: Keeping the head and neck in a single position for a long time will lead to

Traumatized personnel: Head and neck trauma does not directly cause cervical spondylosis, but it is often an aggravating factor of the symptoms of cervical spondylosis. Some patients have cervical vertebrae hyperplasia, cervical disc bulging, soft tissue lesions in the spinal canal, etc., which cause the cervical spinal canal to be in a critical state of stenosis. In addition, neck trauma often induces symptoms and even paralysis. Paralysis has also been reported following inappropriate neck massage.

3. Bad posture: such as lying on the bed watching TV, reading, using a high pillow, sleeping in a sitting position, etc.; sleeping in a sleeper car, the muscles are poorly protected when sleeping, and neck injuries are easy to occur when braking.

4. Hypoplasia of cervical vertebrae structure: Congenitally small spinal canal is also the basis for the disease. The incidence of cervical spondylosis in people with narrow cervical central spinal canal and nerve root canal is 1 times higher than that in normal people.