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What Causes A Tingling And Numbing Sensation In The Upper Right Arm?
Most recently I have had numbness and tingling and sensation of my upper right arm being squeezed. It can be very painful as the squeezing and numbness and tingling happen at the same time for 10 seconds and resolves on its own.When I look up onto the ceiling, I also have sharp right neck sided pain.
Wed, 7 Jun 2017
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You have a syndrome of neck pain. This means that you have neck pain especially, it aggravates when you move your head and neck from some sleep positions or when you wake up from the bed in the morning. When it has radical compression that means that the root of the nerves gets compressed, the pain radiates in the arm. This is called cervical radiculitis. The pain is associated with numbness. In order to find the cause it is important to do radiography in 4 positions: profile, in front, oblique dexter, and oblique sinister to see how the space between the vertebras is narrowed, to see the presence of osteophytes, and to do the differential diagnosis of the cervical syndrome.
The three most frequent diseases are: the degeneration of the discs, spondylarthrosis cervicalis, which happens mostly in people over age 40 years old, and discal cervical hernia. Then the doctor will find the cause and give a treatment by doing a differential diagnosis. In most of the cases the treatment consists of: analgesic medicaments, physiotherapy, kinesiotherapy, etc. Also, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is a good examination.
Wish you a good health.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Emilda Belortaja
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
You have a syndrome of neck pain. This means that you have neck pain especially, it aggravates when you move your head and neck from some sleep positions or when you wake up from the bed in the morning. When it has radical compression that means that the root of the nerves gets compressed, the pain radiates in the arm. This is called cervical radiculitis. The pain is associated with numbness. In order to find the cause it is important to do radiography in 4 positions: profile, in front, oblique dexter, and oblique sinister to see how the space between the vertebras is narrowed, to see the presence of osteophytes, and to do the differential diagnosis of the cervical syndrome.
The three most frequent diseases are: the degeneration of the discs, spondylarthrosis cervicalis, which happens mostly in people over age 40 years old, and discal cervical hernia. Then the doctor will find the cause and give a treatment by doing a differential diagnosis. In most of the cases the treatment consists of: analgesic medicaments, physiotherapy, kinesiotherapy, etc. Also, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is a good examination.
Wish you a good health.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Emilda Belortaja
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