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Symptoms of disease - pain in the hand

Pain in the left arm is caused by different reasons, so it can take various forms. Can hurt the whole hand or some part of it. Pain can occur suddenly or develop gradually, be sharp or dull, burning, or causing numbness, shooting or piercing, permanent or paroxysmal.

Pain in the left arm is often the result of stretching or rupture of ligaments, fractures of the bones, bruises or other injuries. In addition, the cause may overstrain of the muscle fibers, which arose as a result of excessive physical load, long-term work in an awkward position. In this case, the patient hand should ensure maximum peace of mind. In some situations, pain in the left arm is one of the symptoms of diseases of cardiovascular system, locomotor apparatus, nerve trunks. Therefore, if the uncomfortable sensations long-do not pass or periodically renewed without apparent reason should immediately consult a doctor.

If you suspect a sprain or fracture need to go through the x-ray investigation, in the absence of visible external injuries need to check the status of the cervical spine, because the cause of the pain can become a protrusion or a herniated disc. If the uncomfortable feelings arise and disappear in the state of rest, without any external reasons, we cannot completely exclude the development of inflammation or arthritis. It should be remembered that it is not always signs of breaking a bone obvious. In some cases it occurs after the strike and remain unnoticed, appearing only when serious physical load, so as painful feelings take over the signs of a simple bruise.

Note that not always pain in the left arm is felt directly in the place of injury, for example, in the defeat of the wrist, it often spreads on the area of the upper arm. As a rule, it is for the systematic high load on the joints, caused by the peculiarities of professional activity. The hand does not have time to recover, which leads to a gradual strengthening of the pain. In spite of the fact that the muscles of the upper part of the arm most people have developed well enough, their trauma may also cause significant discomfort. Here we should include inflammation of the tendon biceps muscles, as well as the friction of the bone or the gap.

Sometimes the pain in the upper part of the arm occurs as a result of the lifting of heavy weights, causing inflammation in the joints of the shoulder muscles. He is accompanied by a feeling of tingling and burning, which are often concerned about human at night. Additional discomfort creates accumulation in the tissues of the fluid. After awakening, the man shakes the limb, which improves microcirculation and brings relief. However, swelling in the hands can also occur on the background of, for example, pregnancy, therefore reveal pathology can be only by means of special diagnostic studies.

Sometimes a person is faced with pain syndrome, which changes one of his arms. If it's left hand, then on the face of 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, inexplicable feeling of fear. This situation requires the invocation of emergency medical care. The reason for the appeal to the doctor are the soreness in his left hand, continued for more than two days, intensifying when performing physical work or arising out on the background of limited nervous sensitivity. An alarming signal is the change of the form of the upper extremity, the appearance of swelling and stiffness of the joints.

Which diseases there is pain in the hand

Other causes of pain in hand:

- Defeat of the brachial plexus. Shoulder plexitis usually due to mechanical reasons: trauma, the dislocation of the head of the shoulder bone, narrowing clavicum space in the fracture of the clavicle. A rare variant of the shoulder pleksopatis is a Pancoast's syndrome, which is based on the tumor the apex of the lung, sprouting in the brachial plexus. In such cases, the pain in the arm is accompanied by the development of the Horner's syndrome (ptosis, cramps, enophthalmos) due to failure of the sympathetic fibers. Confirm the diagnosis of radiographic signs of tumors of the tops of the light and of destruction of the upper ribs.

- Neuralgic amyotrophy appears unusually intense pain in the shoulder and in the hand in combination with strongly-marked atrophy of muscles of the proximal region of the hands. Often this leads to a paralysis of the front gear muscles, which leads to expectoration madially edge of the blades, causing almost perpendicular to its standing in relation to the chest. Subacute the development of these atrophy distinguishes this option pleksopatis from radiculopathy and other forms of destruction of the shoulder plexus.

- Frozen periarthrosis usually proceeds as one of the neurodystrophic syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis or as an independent disease or trauma. The pain of varying intensity, reminiscent of radiculopathy or plexalgia; feature of it is the fact that the movement of the hands in the sagittal plane is done freely, but the attempt to abstraction hands to the side is limited because of the contractions of muscles and is accompanied by intense pain - the so-called frozen hand.

- Shoulder-hand syndrome is characterized by a combination of symptoms, characteristic for the humeroscapular periarthrosis, with swelling and other vegetative changes in the area of the wrist and ankle joint. The disease is the long-term.

- Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs as a result of compression of the median nerve in the osteo fibrous channel with arthritis of the joints of the wrist, tenosynovitis flexors fingers, often against the background of the endocrine changes - menopause, pregnancy, diabetes, etc. There are paresthesia and pain in the (I-III, or in all five fingers. The pain is worse when palpating the transverse ligament, passive bending and extending in radiocarpal joint, when applying the cuffs tonometer on his shoulder, lifting arms in a lying position.

- Syndrome of the front left of the stairs muscles. Is characterized by pain in the arm, the increasing in the night, when deep breath, tilt of the head in a healthy way, when entering the hands. На нашем сайте вы найдете промокоды на разные суммы: на депозит, пополнение и простой. Используйте 1хбет промокод при регистрации на сегодня и вы получите бонус при пополнении счета. Выгодно ли использовать промокод в 1хбет? Нужно выполнить ряд условий БК и отыграть фрибеты по промо коду в лимитированный срок. Он выгоден, если участник скрупулезен и имеет стратегию выигрыша. There weakness of the muscles of the hand. Brush pale or cyanotic, swollen.

- Pain in the hand, caused by a long work behind the computer, acquired the name of «tunnel syndrome». It is the professional disease of computer scientists and common complaint of all, who spends at the computer too much time. Usually the cause of the pain becomes a pinched nerve in the carpal tunnel (by this leads constant static load on the same muscles and the uncomfortable position of the hands during work with the mouse or keyboard) or the lack of interarticular fluid. The trouble is easier to prevent than to cure. There are special mouse mats with rubber rollers for hands. They help to conveniently arrange a hand and lift her load. If the pain has already appeared, and she was strong enough, pull the wrist elastic bandage, but do not overdo it is the violation of blood circulation only worsen the situation. Broths rosemary and nettle help from pain in the joints. In addition, they can make applications: make the grass, put the warm mush on the hand, wrap it polyethylene and on top of that - something warm, for example, a handkerchief or scarf. But if the hand hurts more than a week, is to go to a neurologist.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the hand

• Cardiologist
• Traumatologist
• Neurologist

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