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Suggest Treatment For Pain In The Forearms
Question: i have had this pain in my left forearm for about 2 weeks. it feels like as if the muscle is tight, or like a tearing sensation
Brief Answer:
many many possibilities.
Detailed Answer:
Cannot diagnose or prescribe without an exam, and can only give general information.
On diagnosis of pain there are several dimensions:
there is the overall context of what the history of the area is, what the history of the person is especially other muscles and other pain issues. Extremes are people who do not care at all about limiting their movements (construction workers) and who frequently severely strain/injure/break parts of themselves and people who become incredibly overconcerned about pain (heroin abusers get over-sensitized to pain; depressed people also) and the focusing on the pain is the issue. Neither mentions just one spot with pain, so it is quite doubtful this applies at all here.
Which brings up the next section, in people who have one spot that hurts, finding what triggers the pain nearly always shows what the problem is, how it got that way and what to do about it. So, in an exam you move everything, see what movements triggers pain and that shows where the problem is (the joints or the bones or the muscles would be an important first distinction). You'd also look to see if something is broken... seriously abnormal... or infected, or deformed, out of the right spot, or just inflamed. in which case mostly rest, warmth, pressure (deep warm water bath) and anti-inflammatories would generally work.
many many possibilities.
Detailed Answer:
Cannot diagnose or prescribe without an exam, and can only give general information.
On diagnosis of pain there are several dimensions:
there is the overall context of what the history of the area is, what the history of the person is especially other muscles and other pain issues. Extremes are people who do not care at all about limiting their movements (construction workers) and who frequently severely strain/injure/break parts of themselves and people who become incredibly overconcerned about pain (heroin abusers get over-sensitized to pain; depressed people also) and the focusing on the pain is the issue. Neither mentions just one spot with pain, so it is quite doubtful this applies at all here.
Which brings up the next section, in people who have one spot that hurts, finding what triggers the pain nearly always shows what the problem is, how it got that way and what to do about it. So, in an exam you move everything, see what movements triggers pain and that shows where the problem is (the joints or the bones or the muscles would be an important first distinction). You'd also look to see if something is broken... seriously abnormal... or infected, or deformed, out of the right spot, or just inflamed. in which case mostly rest, warmth, pressure (deep warm water bath) and anti-inflammatories would generally work.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
ok yea i have never had this type of pain- from what i can remember i had a knot in my left shoulder so i rubbed it out a little-then the next morning i felt a little knot in my forearm, the knot went away but now im just feeling the tightness and slight burning/tearing feeling- so ill try some home remedies and then seek a dr for e ray if it persists ..thank you
Brief Answer:
very good !
Detailed Answer:
Cannot say in your particular case AND
1) knots imply muscle. and
2) certainly implies a strain/overuse type of usual/everday/mild/not broken type of context.
3) goes against a pinched nerve in the neck (about only other thing on the list of possibilities... the nerve goes out from the neck, down the shoulders near elbow and out to part of the hand) while you can have a spasmed muscle from this produce a lump, generally there's neck pain, the type of pain is shooting/burning/electrical and mostly poking the muscle doesn't trigger it.
So, rest, gradual working out the muscle, anti-inflammatories are all helpful.
very good !
Detailed Answer:
Cannot say in your particular case AND
1) knots imply muscle. and
2) certainly implies a strain/overuse type of usual/everday/mild/not broken type of context.
3) goes against a pinched nerve in the neck (about only other thing on the list of possibilities... the nerve goes out from the neck, down the shoulders near elbow and out to part of the hand) while you can have a spasmed muscle from this produce a lump, generally there's neck pain, the type of pain is shooting/burning/electrical and mostly poking the muscle doesn't trigger it.
So, rest, gradual working out the muscle, anti-inflammatories are all helpful.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
thanks again i really appreciate it
Brief Answer:
you are very welcome
Detailed Answer:
glad to have helped.
you are very welcome
Detailed Answer:
glad to have helped.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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