Waking up with arm pain may be arm pressure, cold or cervical spondylosis.
1. Pressure: because of poor posture when sleeping, arm is head or body pressure, resulting in blood circulation is blocked, metabolites gathered in the arm, there will be arm soreness, generally after the activities to improve blood circulation, can be gradually relieved.
2. Cold: when you sleep, your arm is cold, and the capillaries in your arm contract, making the muscle circulation worse, which can produce muscle pain symptoms, generally through warmth or hot compresses can relieve the discomfort.
3. cervical spondylosis: cervical spondylosis people, sleep at night with a pillow too high, so that the cervical spine excessive flexion aggravate the pressure on the nerve root, there will be arm pain discomfort.
Waking up with arm pain may have other reasons, including tennis elbow, venous thrombosis and arterial embolism and other diseases need to be excluded. If after rest or hot compresses do not improve significantly or aggravate, should be timely to the regular hospital consultation, by the doctor according to the symptoms, signs and auxiliary examination to determine the specific cause, according to the cause of the appropriate treatment.