One of the common phenomena is numbness in the hands, this feeling occurs because our nerve roots are being impacted and compressed. Maybe you have just worked too hard or sat still for too long, so you feel numb in your hands.
Normally, we will feel numbness in the tips of our fingers, like ants are crawling on them or needles are stabbing the tips of our fingers. Then, the numbness gradually spreads to the whole hand or even the arm.
If you occasionally feel numbness in your hands, it is just a normal phenomenon, after resting and relaxing a bit, that feeling will not bother us anymore. However, we should not ignore it if this condition occurs frequently. This can be a symptom of some serious diseases.
2. Causes of temporary hand numbness
Most people have hand numbness due to mechanical factors, they do not affect our health but only slightly disrupt your life and activities.
Usually, the main reason for hand numbness is that you exercise vigorously, exercise for a long time, work in the wrong posture or due to side effects of medication, vitamin deficiency, etc. Some examples include: holding a pen incorrectly, leaning on your hand for too long or wearing accessories on your hand too tightly, etc. This compresses the nerve roots, blood cannot circulate normally and leads to hand numbness.
3. Diseases that cause numbness in hands
Herniated disc disease
Cervical disc herniation occurs when the nucleus pulposus inside the disc sheath leaks out, pressing on the nerve roots, causing pain. Most patients with disc herniation experience numbness in their hands.
Therefore, if you experience persistent numbness in your hands, you are likely to have disc herniation. If this disease is not treated, it will directly affect the patient’s ability to move.
Spinal degeneration
Our spine is very susceptible to degeneration, becoming weaker if the vertebrae frequently rub against the nerves. When sick, all movements of the patient become more difficult, daily life and work change a lot.
They will have to endure a lot of pain, initially appearing in the neck, shoulders and gradually spreading to other locations on the body, the whole body aches.
In particular, the patient also feels numbness in the hand in the direction the nerve passes through, you absolutely should not be subjective with the above condition!
