Frequent hand numbness \ foot numbness is how?
Upper limb nerve compression: a numbness and pain in the thumb, index, middle finger, often with a history of nighttime numbness, waking up activities can be improved. Severe cases can be accompanied by hand muscle atrophy, affecting the fine movements of the hand, this is because the median nerve in the wrist is compressed, the so-called "carpal tunnel syndrome"; the second is the ring, numbness and pain in the little finger, can also have a history of numbness at night, severe cases are accompanied by muscular atrophy, the ring, the little finger of the flexion force decreases, affecting the fine use. This is because the nerve in the elbow is compressed, the so-called "elbow tube syndrome". 2, cervical spondylosis: the most common disease that causes hand numbness is cervical spondylosis, which is one of the diseases that occur in middle-aged and elderly people. When a person enters middle age, some organs tend to degenerate, when the cervical intervertebral disc degenerative, often lead to cervical intervertebral disc protrusion or synovial hyperplasia or hypertrophy, these protruding cervical intervertebral discs or hyperplasia of the synovial joints, once the compression of the neighboring cervical nerve root, then appeared in the cervical spondylosis. In addition to numbness and abnormal sensation in the fingers, cervical spondylosis is accompanied by other symptoms, such as pain in the neck and shoulders, radiating pain in the upper limbs or impaired mobility. It is not difficult to confirm the diagnosis of cervical spondylosis by taking an X-ray. In addition, there is a simple way to check cervical spondylosis, a person to support the affected side of the head, one hand holding the affected side of the upper limb, will be 90 ° abduction, both hands at the same time to the opposite direction of the push and pull, there is radiating pain or numbness can be initially diagnosed as cervical spondylosis. 3、Stroke: Another common disease that causes hand numbness is stroke. The health treasures - stroke door" has said: "all people feel the first big finger, the second finger numbness or not use, within three years of the disease of stroke." Preventive measures should be taken: prudent living, diet, distant room and house, and broad emotions. Although numbness of the fingers does not necessarily occur stroke, but for middle-aged people over 40 years of age, if the frequent occurrence of headache, dizziness, light-headedness, numbness of the limbs, tongue swelling and other symptoms, and the patient usually have high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes mellitus, cerebral arteriosclerosis and other diseases, should pay more attention to be vigilant about the occurrence of a stroke. 4, menopausal syndrome: menopausal women sometimes have the phenomenon of hand numbness, but not obvious, with the end of menopause, hand numbness will disappear. In short, the diagnosis of hand numbness symptoms, but also need to refer to the cervical spine film, electromyography and other ancillary tests to make a clear judgment. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, if the symptoms are still mild, the regular non-surgical treatment, can have different degrees of improvement, if the symptoms are obvious, and there is obvious atrophy of the hand muscle, should be taken in time for surgical treatment, to stop the development of the disease, so as not to cause irreversible serious atrophy of the hand muscle, resulting in severe dysfunction of the hand.