What treatment can effectively relieve numbness in hands and feet?

Numbness of hands and feet is due to poor peripheral blood circulation and insufficient blood supply to hands and feet, which leads to numbness. Numbness of hands and feet is a common symptom in people's daily life, such as pregnancy, incorrect sleeping position, long-term squatting in the toilet and so on. [ 1]

Generally, it will be eliminated in a short time, and there will be no big problem. And some people's numbness in their hands and feet can't be relieved for a long time (more than one day), which may be a sign of physical illness.

Scientific name of western medicine

numb hands and feet

subordinate unit

Surgery-plastic surgery

Onset site

Hands, limbs, feet

cardinal symptom

Numbness, pain

Main etiology

Tennis elbow, cervical spondylosis, rheumatism, lumbar spondylosis

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Symptomatic manifestation

Numbness of hands and feet is an independent motor nerve injury disease of limbs, which is mostly caused by paralysis caused by lumbar diseases such as stroke, diabetes, neuritis, cervical spondylosis, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis. The tiny blood vessels around the motor nerve fibers are blocked, which compresses the motor fibers and causes serious damage to the motor nerve fibers. Nerve conduction ability and conduction speed decrease, resulting in numbness of hands and feet. Severe cases will develop into limb paralysis. Muscle atrophy and other painful symptoms. This disease usually occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, or people with bone and joint surgery or injury.

Introduction of etiology

Numbness of hands and feet is generally caused by damage to the motor nervous system of human body, and numbness of hands and feet is generally caused by other primary diseases. Stroke hemiplegia, diabetes, osteoarthropathy, neuritis, cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis are common primary diseases of numbness of hands and feet.

Numbness of hands and feet is actually called arthralgia in the category of diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, which is an important signal that wind, cold, dampness and evil spirits invade the body. Before the poisonous gas invades the five internal organs, the first feeling is numbness of hands and feet, soreness, heaviness and pain of limbs, which is a signal that the meridians are blocked and is the last line of defense of the human body. If it is not treated in time, the meridians will be damaged, which will destroy the nerve conduction function system of the human body and cause nerve necrosis, which will eventually lead to stroke, hemiplegia, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction and diabetic gangrene, and regret it for life.

Stroke hemiplegia

Middle-aged and elderly people often have high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia. Hypertension can cause vasospasm, hyperlipidemia can cause arteriosclerosis, middle-aged and elderly people have high blood viscosity and slow blood flow during sleep. These factors can lead to transient cerebral ischemia and finger numbness.

"Stroke" in Chinese medicine refers to the blockage or stenosis of blood vessels caused by various reasons in western medicine, which is often said to be common in the brain of the elderly. Due to blood vessel obstruction, poor blood supply, local tissue hypoxia and ischemia, cell degeneration or necrosis, it shows certain dysfunction symptoms.

diabetes

When suffering from diabetes, the increase of blood sugar causes a series of metabolic disorders of nerve fibers, including energy and substance metabolic disorders, which leads to nerve fiber swelling and degeneration, thus causing peripheral neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy is mainly manifested as numbness and pain at the extremities, such as acupuncture, burning or ant crawling. Usually, the lower limbs are more serious than the upper limbs, and both limbs can occur simultaneously or successively, typically distributed like gloves or socks. Sometimes it is manifested as hyperalgesia, that is, you will feel obvious pain when you are slightly stimulated. In severe cases, you will feel pain when you wear clothes and cover the quilt.

osteoarthropathy

Osteoarthropathy is a chronic joint disease characterized by local articular cartilage degeneration, bone loss, bone spur formation at the joint edge, joint deformity and decreased subchondral bone density, also known as osteoarthritis, degenerative osteoarthropathy, proliferative arthritis and senile arthritis. Long-term onset will cause damage to the nerves around the joints, or insufficient support will cause numbness in the hands and feet.

cervical spondylopathy

Due to cervical hypertrophy and hyperplasia or cervical intervertebral disc degeneration and protrusion, it can cause numbness of one or both fingers, and gradually develop into upper arm, forearm and even upper limb movement disorder.

Generally, cervical spondylosis can cause headache, dizziness, numbness of limbs and pain. Don't worry, it can still be alleviated by taking active and effective measures. The effect of western medicine in treating such diseases is not very satisfactory. Apart from oral medication, there is only surgery, and it is not recommended to do general cervical surgery, because cervical nerve lines are dense and risky, and massage and traction can't relieve pain.

Numbness of hands and feet, even dizziness and vomiting need attention, which is probably a symptom of cervical spondylosis. The common treatment of cervical spondylosis is to treat it with traditional Chinese medicine similar to Jingfukang Granule. It is a Chinese patent medicine for treating cervical spondylosis. Contains a variety of traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, which not only has remarkable curative effect, but also can comprehensively regulate the body on the basis of treatment. Numbness of hands and feet can be one of the first symptoms of cervical spondylosis, but it is sometimes ignored because of its mild symptoms. Therefore, when there are obvious symptoms such as numbness of hands and feet, neck and shoulder pain, you may wish to check the cervical spine. The above symptoms may be due to cervical spondylotic myelopathy. [2]

neuritis

Peripheral neuropathy most commonly involves femoral nerve, sciatic nerve, median nerve, radial nerve, ulnar nerve, sural nerve and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. Early symptoms are mainly sensory disturbance, but electrophysiological examination often shows that both motor nerves and sensory nerves are involved. Clinically, it presents symmetrical pain and abnormal sensation, and the symptoms of lower limbs are more common than those of upper limbs. Abnormal feelings include numbness, ant walking, insect crawling, fever and electric shock. These feelings usually reach the knee from the distal toe, and the patient feels like wearing socks and gloves. Severe sensory disturbance can lead to lower extremity arthropathy and ulcer. Pain is stabbing pain, burning pain, terrible pain, as if it were deep into the bone marrow. Sometimes there will be tactile allergies, and even the pressure of the quilt can't bear it. I have to hold up the quilt. When the motor nerves are fatigued in time, the muscle strength often decreases to varying degrees, and dystrophic muscular atrophy occurs in the later stage. Peripheral neuropathy can be bilateral, unilateral, symmetrical or asymmetrical, but bilateral symmetry is more common.

lumbar disease

[3] Lumbar spondylosis only causes numbness in the lower limbs, and there will be no numbness in the upper limbs. This is mainly caused by nerve compression and other stimuli in the corresponding segment of the lesion. Because the nerve roots and their courses in the lumbar spinal canal are mainly distributed in the pelvic cavity and lower limbs, the running nerves and their roots in the upper limbs are mainly located in the cervical spinal canal. Therefore, patients with lumbar spondylosis with numbness of hands and feet should consider the occurrence of cervical spondylosis. The main cause of numbness of hands and feet is the degenerative changes of neck and lumbar spine. Degenerative changes of cervical and lumbar vertebrae will lead to disc herniation or hyperplasia and hypertrophy of articular processes of cervical and lumbar vertebrae. So as to compress the spinal canal along the nerve roots of the upper and lower limbs, or the symptoms of numbness of hands and feet appear due to the oppression of hyperosteogeny of uncinate joint and the stimulation of nerve roots in intervertebral foramen.

therapeutic method

Other treatments

Treatment: The key to cure this disease lies in thrombolysis, elimination of hypercoagulability, removal of old thrombus and prevention of new thrombosis. After the eradication of thrombus, the next step is the treatment of sequelae, which can be carried out from the aspects of medicine and diet, physical function and physical exercise. Numbness of hands and feet is still due to local vascular stenosis and insufficient blood supply. You can take some vasodilators according to your doctor's advice to strengthen nutrition and physical therapy. Hot compress, local massage, acupuncture, infrared therapeutic apparatus, etc. , but also appropriate exercise, walking, maintain a normal optimistic attitude, in addition, you can learn from the experience of some similar patients around you and treat them in many ways.

Treatment: Osteoarthropathy can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine, and the clinical effect is very good.

Treatment: Mainly strictly control blood sugar. Large-scale foreign studies have proved that strict control of blood sugar can partially prevent the occurrence and development of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. In addition, the early use of vitamin B 12 preparation, especially methyl vitamin B 12, can get some effects when peripheral neuropathy occurs, and the combined use of vitamin B 1 and B6 may have a better effect.

motortherapy

Neck and shoulder movements

1, put your fingers behind your head, put your body weight on your hands and arms, press your head down, straighten your neck, and take five deep breaths.

2. Put your right hand on your left ear, gently hook it, tilt your head to the right, take a deep breath for 5 times, and change your left hand after repeating several times.

3, slowly turn the neck, clockwise and counterclockwise 5 times each.

4. Lift your shoulders, exhale and let go, and repeat for 4~5 times.

5. Shake your shoulders, 5 times backward and 5 times forward.

6. Look at the bottom with your face to the right, repeat 3~5 times, and then reverse.

7. Relax your sitting posture, put your arms vertically on your knees, and then hold your head up and hold your chest high. The two move alternately for 3~5 times.

Foot and foot movement

Bend your legs and lift parallel to your chest. Hold them up and down five times each, which will make you feel comfortable.

Turn your ankle clockwise and counterclockwise 10 times.

Put your toes together and bend up and down alternately for 5 times.

Put your feet flat on the ground and change your feet. Repeat the exercise 20~30 times.

Hand and facial movements

1. Press the top of your head with your fingertips and move up and down. (pat)

2. Gently massage from the temple to the chin with your fingertips.

3. Hold the upper eyelid with your index finger and thumb, pull it outward and repeat.

4. Massage your eyes along your cheekbones.

Massage from nostril to chin and back to the original point.

Massage your chin.

The mandible rotates left and right 5 times.

Hold the tip of your nose with your palm and do circular motion five times in each direction.

Hold the ear bone and pull it up, down and out for 3 times, then turn it back and forth for 3 times.

quicksand

Mostly caused by stroke, hemiplegia, diabetes, neuritis, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, etc. The tiny blood vessels around the motor nerve fibers are blocked, which compresses the motor fibers, resulting in serious damage to the motor nerve fibers, decreased nerve conduction ability and conduction speed, and numbness of hands and feet. Severe cases can develop into painful symptoms, such as quadriplegia and muscle atrophy.

counter-measure

After the patient is cured, careful measures should be taken to prevent recurrence, and attention should be paid to keeping warm, exercising and eating. Specific measures are as follows:

1. Proper exercise:

Proper exercise has a good effect on patients with arthropathy, which makes the affected joints selectively engage in some activities, which is not only conducive to the exchange of joint fluid, the removal of metabolites, inflammatory products and harmful substances in the joint cavity, the relief of pain, but also conducive to the improvement of joint contracture. Enhance the strength of muscles around joints, prevent muscle atrophy and increase bone density. Therefore, joint mobility increases and functional damage decreases. Whole-body exercise can also enhance patients' physical strength and cardiopulmonary function, improve their self-care ability, and restore patients' body and mind.

Principles to be followed in exercise: not feeling tired the next day after exercise is the standard; Try to exercise in the early stage of rheumatism.

2. A reasonable diet:

Because rheumatism is a chronic disease, it often has symptoms such as low fever, muscle atrophy and anemia, which consumes a lot of physical strength, so it is necessary to supplement high protein, vitamin D and calcium for osteoporosis patients, and iron for anemia patients. Soybean is rich in protein and trace elements, which can promote the metabolism of muscles, bones, joints and tendons and help to repair lesions. Nurses should encourage patients to eat some beans properly to avoid cold, spicy and seafood.

3. Pay attention to keep warm and avoid cold and humidity;

90% patients are sensitive to climate change, which is manifested by cloudy days, rain, cold and humidity, and the local swelling and pain of joints can be aggravated. Some patients' condition changes are related to the seasons, especially in the seasons of alternating winter, spring, autumn and winter, which often makes the patients who are usually in a stable period suddenly have symptoms aggravated, thus making the previous treatment wasted. Therefore, we should consciously pay attention to the influence of climate and season on diseases, so as to adjust the coldness and temperature in time, give priority to prevention, pay attention to avoiding cold and keeping warm, and reduce the adverse effects of environmental factors on diseases.

4. Build confidence and overcome anxiety:

As a patient, we must first face the reality and have a correct understanding of the disease. Some patients may still fail to achieve satisfactory results after a period of treatment, resulting in great mental and economic pressure, resulting in anxiety and loss of confidence in treatment. Therefore, it is necessary for nurses to explain some knowledge to patients, because most patients can be cured, such as patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis, polio, severe hyperplasia and disc herniation. Therefore, as long as patients maintain an optimistic mood, adopt a positive attitude, establish a regular life system, take part in some physical exercises appropriately, cultivate their interest in life and divert their attention from diseases.

Health care problems

Pay attention to work and rest on time to achieve moderate diet, especially don't overeat fat and sweets to prevent "three high" blood diseases. Keep a happy mood and avoid anxiety and anger. Take part in sports activities within your power, such as running, aerobics, outdoor sports, etc. In order to enhance physical fitness and make blood flow smoothly. Middle-aged and above people, especially obese people, should take active measures to prevent the occurrence of stroke if they see numbness in the index finger, middle finger or tongue root.

People who feel numb when it rains and is wet on cloudy days should pay attention to keep warm and damp-proof, especially if they are too cold and will catch cold, otherwise the cold climate will often aggravate the symptoms of numbness.