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left arm pain

The pain in the left arm is caused by different reasons, so it can have various forms. The whole arm or some part of it may hurt. The pain may occur suddenly or develop gradually, be acute or dull, burning or numb, shooting or piercing, permanent or paroxysmal.

Pain in the left arm is often the result of sprains or ruptures of the ligaments, broken bones, bruises, or other types of injuries. In addition, muscle fibers overstrain, caused by excessive physical exertion, prolonged work in an uncomfortable position, can cause. In this case, the sore hand should provide maximum rest. In some situations, pain in the left hand is one of the symptoms of diseases of the cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system, nerve trunks. Therefore, if the discomfort does not pass for a long time or periodically renews for no apparent reason, consult a doctor immediately.

If you suspect a dislocation or fracture, you need to undergo an x-ray examination, in the absence of visible external damage, you must check the condition of the cervical spine, as the protrusion or hernia can cause intervertebral disc. If discomfort arises and disappears in a state of rest without any external causes, the development of the inflammatory process or arthritis cannot be ruled out. It should be remembered that the signs of bone fracture are not always obvious. In some cases, it occurs after a strike and remains unnoticed, manifesting itself only when a serious physical exertion, because painful sensations  take for signs simple injury.

Note that not always the pain in the left hand is felt directly at the site of injury, for example, when a wrist is affected, it often spreads to the forearm area. As a rule, this happens with a systematic high load on the joint, due to the peculiarities of professional activity. In this case, the hand does not have time to recover, which leads to a gradual increase in pain. Despite the fact that the muscles of the upper arm in most people are well developed, their injury can also cause significant discomfort. This should also include the inflammation of the biceps tendon, as well as its bone friction or rupture.

Sometimes pain in the upper arm results from lifting weights, causing inflammatory process  in the tendons of the shoulder muscles. It is accompanied by a tingling and burning sensation that often worries a person at night. Additional discomfort creates an accumulation of fluid in the tissues. After awakening, the person shakes the limb, which improves microcirculation and brings relief. However, swelling in the hands can also occur against the background of, for example, pregnancy, therefore, pathology can only be identified through special diagnostic studies.

Often a person is faced with pain syndromewhich radiates to one of the hands. If this left handthen the classic symptoms of a heart attack or myocardial infarction. In this case, the pain behind the sternum and in the left hand, as a rule, is accompanied by shortness of breath, pallor, nausea, cold sweat, an inexplicable feeling of fear. This situation requires an emergency medical call. The reason for going to the doctor is pain in the left hand, lasting more than two days, aggravated when performing physical work  or arising on the background of limited nervous sensitivity. The alarm is a change in the shape of the upper limb, the appearance of swelling and stiffness of the joints.

What diseases cause pain in the left hand:

Other causes of pain in the left hand:

The defeat of the brachial plexus. The humeral plexitis is usually caused by mechanical causes: trauma, dislocation of the humeral head, narrowing of the bone and glandular space during a fracture of the clavicle. A rare variant of the brachial plexopathy is Pancost syndrome, which is based on a tumor of the apex of the lung that grows into the brachial plexus. In such cases, pain in the left arm is accompanied by the development of Horner's syndrome (ptosis, miosis, enophthalmos) due to the defeat of the sympathetic fibers. The diagnosis is confirmed by radiographic signs of apex of the lung and destruction of the upper ribs.

Neuralgic amyotrophy is manifested by an unusually intense pain in the shoulder girdle and in the left arm in combination with pronounced atrophy of the muscles of the proximal arm. Often, this causes paralysis of the anterior serratus muscle, which leads to the discharge of the medial margin of the scapula, causing it to be almost perpendicular to rib cage. The subacute development of these atrophies distinguishes this variant of plexopathies from radiculopathy and other forms of lesions of the brachial plexus.

Pentulous periarthrosis usually occurs as one of the neurodystrophic syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis, either as an independent disease or as a consequence of injury. Pain of varying intensity, resembling radiculopathy or plexalgia; its peculiarity is that the movement of the arm in the sagittal plane is performed freely, but the attempt to move the arm to the side is limited due to the contracture of the muscles and is accompanied by intense pain - the so-called frozen arm.

Shoulder-hand syndrome is characterized by a combination of the symptoms characteristic of the humeroscapular pariarthrosis, with edema and other autonomic changes in the area of ​​the hand and wrist joint. The disease is prolonged.

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Dear readers! Our bodies are very intelligent and well-coordinated system. He warns us in advance about the occurrence of any diseases. I wonder how can such an unpretentious part of our body - the hand, to signal serious health problems? Today we analyze why there is pain in the hand and how to help yourself in such a situation.

What symptoms make us worry? it

• pain,
• numbness,
• tingling
• feeling of heaviness in hand.

Such unpleasant symptoms can occur as in a separate part of the arm - shoulder or elbow joint, shoulder, forearm, hands and fingers. Depending on the location of pain in one or another part and in which particular hand (left or right) unpleasant and painful sensations arose, it can be judged exactly what caused their appearance.

Among common causes  pain may be due to

• traumatic injuries;
• as a symptom of serious diseases;
• diseases of the joints and spine;
• uncomfortable posture during sleep.

I have already written about many reasons and methods of treatment in my articles on my blog. Read:

Let's take a closer look at why the left or right arm hurts, what can be the cause of pain in specific cases and what needs to be done.

Causes of pain in the left hand

Cervical osteochondrosis

Often after sleep, people complain, as if they were lying down with an uncomfortable position in a dream. The pain in the extremity is accompanied by numbness, crawling feeling on the skin, it is impossible to make hand movements for some time, sensitivity is lost. In addition to these symptoms, often cervical osteochondrosis is accompanied by headaches. These symptoms are repeated several times, but then they do not go away.

Everything is explained simply. The numbness of the little finger is the zone of innervation of the 8th spinal nerve that goes out at the level of the cervical region. Therefore, rubbing hands and arms usually does not bring any effect. In this case, treatment of cervical osteochondrosis is required.

Discomfort in the hands may signal other problems in the cervical spine: intervertebral hernia, the presence of osteophytes, etc.

Violation of cerebral circulation

The feeling of numbness and swelling in the hand, which in the morning can again be confused with an uncomfortable posture in a dream, are symptoms of an acute violation of cerebral circulation. If in the morning in the bathroom you notice that the person has asymmetry and you cannot say a single word to call for help.

Asymmetry of the face, impaired speech and immobility of the arm speak of ischemic stroke. This condition requires emergency care, since mortality from this form of stroke occurs in 37% of cases.

Myocardial infarction

There is such a thing as reflected pain. When the blood supply to the heart muscle is disrupted, information on the vegetative nerve fibers goes to spinal cord, and nearby are nerve fibers, which are excited and transmit pain impulses to the arm.

Therefore, during exercise or agitation, which provoke an attack of angina and malnutrition of the heart muscle, often the pain in the arm does not correlate with myocardial infarction.

What to do with pain in the left hand?

Perhaps the appearance acute pain  it is in her left hand, numbness, a violation of her motor function that indicates a serious health problem. You have already understood that this may be a sign of acute pathology in stroke or myocardial infarction. Well, if there are relatives nearby. What do we have to do?

1. Call emergency room - 03. When you call, consult immediately with the dispatcher what can be given to the patient from the medications available at home.
2. Create patient peace, put to bed, lift the head end of the body at 30 º, put a pillow under your back so that there is no bends in the cervical spine.
3. If the patient is unconscious, turn his head to the side so as not to cause aspiration of vomitus.
4. Wait for emergency doctors.

But what to do, in a similar situation, you were alone at home?

1. Call the ambulance by calling 03.
2. Open the front door so that the ambulance team that arrives will not have to break the door if you are suddenly unconscious.
3. Calm down, lie down in bed.

If the symptoms say you have cervical osteochondrosis, then you need to see a doctor for an appointment. drug treatment, refer to folk methods  treatment and do exercises according to the method of Alexandra Bonina. I propose to see the exercises for the collar zone of Anna Kurkurina, you will not regret if you do these exercises every day.

Causes of pain in the right hand

Causes of pain in the right hand can be cervical osteochondrosis, various injuries, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, arthrosis and arthritis, Raynaud's disease. Almost all of these diseases can manifest themselves identically in the left hand.

But today I want to dwell on another problem. No, this is not a problem with the eyes that scare us that we are looking at the monitor for a long time. You can cope with this problem by taking breaks every hour or special exercises for the eyes. So that the back does not hurt, you need to do exercises for the back and have the right chair.

But there is another, no less dangerous enemy. We are talking about carpal tunnel syndrome. This is a neurological disease manifested by prolonged pain and numbness of the fingers. The cause is a compression of the median nerve between the bones and tendons of the muscles of the wrist.

The disease occurs in those who have to work with a mouse from a computer for a long time - these are designers, journalists, managers, bloggers. This disease is considered to be professional for workers who have to perform monotonous flexion-extensor movements working with vibrotools, as well as for pianists, conductors, sign language interpreters, artists.

More often, women over 50 years of age suffer from disorders in the hormonal system, tumors (adhesives) and deformities in the wrist area, suffering from amyloidosis, alcoholism, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and renal failure.

The first symptoms do not cause concern: the pain, tingling and burning sensation in the area of ​​the fingers disappears if you lower your hand down and slightly move your fingers. Pain, burning and discomfort in the brush, if no action is taken, becomes permanent and does not disappear even when you are not working at the computer.

Gradually it's a dull pain  it intensifies and later the hand begins to “pull”, it becomes difficult to lift more or less heavy things, lean on the arm and in severe cases the arm can swell. Gradually, the pain passes to the forearm and can begin immediately after waking up. The hand goes numb while pain sensations  disappear.

What to do with tunnel syndrome?

If you work at a computer, first of all pay attention to the shape of the mouse, it should fit perfectly to the size of your hand. The working surface of the table with the mouse should be slightly below the level of the elbow, then the voltage on the brush will be less.

Treatment consists of prescribing nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy, orthosis. Surgery  carried out in severe complicated cases.

For prevention, do simple exercises every 10-15 minutes of work.

• Squeeze and unclench hands, repeat 10 times.
• Keep your hands in a fist and press firmly on the bottom side of the tabletop, hold for 3 seconds and relax your hands. Repeat 10 times.
• Brush make a fist. Alternately slowly unbend each finger of your left hand. right hand. Then change and unbend fingers with the right hand with your left hand.

Or do exercises from this video complex.

  Such exercises within 5 minutes will be suitable for everyone else who may develop tunnel syndrome.