In daily life, we often wake up overnight and find that our hands are numb, and this is caused by a variety of reasons. In general, it may be the pressure on the vascular nerve that causes numbness in the hand, but long-term numbness in the hand should be noted. So, what is the cause of numbness in the hands in bed? What are the symptoms of hand numbness? How to do numb hands?
What’s wrong with numb hands in bed?
Under normal circumstances, numbness in the hands is related to blood circulation. When the blood is obstructed, causing poor flow in the body, it will cause numbness in the hands. In addition, improper sleeping posture, sleep pressure on the hands or keep the same action for a long time, will also lead to numbness in the hands. Summer is here, people like to blow air conditioning, often let the arm in a cold environment, will also lead to poor blood, causing hand numbness.
However, it is worth noting that when none of the above is the case, it may be cervical spondylosis. This mostly occurs in the middle-aged and elderly population. In addition to hand numbness, cervical spondylosis is also accompanied by sore neck and shoulder muscles and soreness in the upper limbs.
Sleeping with numb hands may suffer from some of the following diseases.
1.Nerve root type cervical spondylosis
Symptom identification: In addition to numbness and pain in the fingers, patients have pain in the neck and shoulder, neck, back of the shoulder and head, and upper limbs, manifested as radial or ulnar side, or five fingers together with numbness and swelling, and may also be accompanied by the phenomenon of reduced grip strength. The pain is mostly dull, aching, burning, or vague, or electric shock-like string pain. The numbness is often the same as the pain, and the two are often accompanied by each other, but the numbness is mostly found in the fingers and forearms. Sensory loss in the fingers and forearm, and a few areas of sensory hypersensitivity, are often caused by stimulation of the lesioned segments.
2.Carpal tunnel syndrome
Symptom differentiation: numbness or tingling in the 3 and a half fingers on the flexor side of the patient, intensifying at night, waking up from sleep and pain, pain is aggravated when the temperature is high, and can be alleviated after activity or shaking the hand; cold season affected fingers are cold, cyanotic, finger activity is not sensitive, thumb abduction muscle strength is poor; severe condition of the affected side of the size of the interphalangeal muscle atrophy.
Carpal tunnel syndrome, also known as carpal tunnel stenosis, refers to a condition in which trauma, fracture, dislocation, sprain or wrist strain causes thickening of the transverse carpal ligament, swelling of the musculature in the canal, degeneration of the tissue due to stasis and mechanization, or degeneration and proliferation of the carpal bone, which reduces the circumference of the canal lumen, thus compressing the median nerve and causing numbness and weakness of the fingers. This disease is common in people who work in occupational handling, lifting, twisting, pinching, etc. Numbness and swelling of the fingers is one of the symptoms, but it is usually accompanied by numbness in the arms and other parts of the body.
3.Heart and kidney disease
Symptom identification: Swollen fingers caused by heart and kidney diseases are usually accompanied by swollen face or legs. Hand numbness after getting up should be alert to the disease coming, finger numbness is one of its early manifestations, if accompanied by joint swelling and pain, it is more likely. If the skin of the face and fingers is hard, it may be scleroderma.
How to sleep with numb hands?
1, adjust the sleeping position: sleep occasionally hand numbness does not need to worry too much, should be pressed to the arm, resulting in blood is not smooth, then this situation can be more massage arm at night, or find a comfortable position before going to bed, do not fall back to sleep, or wake up hand or numb.
2, change a pillow: In addition, we can also pick a pillow of the right height, the pillow needs to be flat, so that the head and neck pillow on the pillow, so that the blood flow.
3, go to the hospital to check: If the hand numbness is caused by cervical spondylosis, it is recommended to go to the hospital to take an X-ray to check. If you are unable to get to the hospital in time, you can use this method to check. A person dragging the side of the patient’s head, a hand holding the patient’s side upper limb, a 90-degree stretch, two hands stretching in the opposite direction, if there is radioactive pain, numbness, can be initially confirmed as cervical spondylosis. Cervical spondylosis hand numbness patients usually need to do more outdoor exercise, work for a long time more walk to exercise the limbs. And people with cervical spondylosis are most afraid of being cold. Therefore, pay attention to warmth and protect the back of the neck.
4.Chinese medicine massage.
(1) combing the arm, manage the meridian to dispel evil
With the right hand pinch pinch the left armpit pole spring point (located at the apex of the armpit, axillary artery pulsation), and then from top to bottom, from bottom to top comb the inner and outer arms.
And then press the Hegu point (the thumb of one hand interphalangeal joints between the thumb of the other hand, the edge of the finger webbing between the index finger, the thumb tip refers to the place) and Laogong point (located in the palm of the hand, the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal bones between the palm bone off the middle of the palm line, when clenching the fist and flexing the finger, the tip of the middle finger refers to) 64 times each, it is best to massage with the same method to change hands.
(2) elongate the neck, spasm relief
Hands raised to the waist, inhale, and then slowly press down, the soles of the feet grip the ground, chest and abdomen, the neck consciously elongated upward, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth.