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How to acupuncture finger numbness? What is the reason for finger numbness?

1 How to acupuncture for numbness of fingers 1, location of fishbone point: fishbone point is the back of thumb. After the arms are folded, there may be a slight bulge between the thumb and forefinger, which is the fishbone point.

2. Yangxi point location: Yangxi point is located at the joint of thumb and arm. As long as the finger is spread out and the thumb is slightly extended forward, there will be a depression at the joint, which is also Yangxi point.

3. Location of Waiguan point: The way to find Waiguan point is to observe your wrist. There is a wrinkle in the skin of the palm, and the middle finger, index finger and ring finger of the other hand are folded and covered on this wrinkle. This Waiguan point is next to the index finger.

4. Point selection position of Quchi point: bend your elbow and stop bending your elbow when it reaches 90 degrees. Watch your elbow. There is a horizontal stripe on the elbow, and there is a depression on the outside of the horizontal stripe, which is the Quchi point.

What is the reason for finger numbness? Vascular factors sedentary or poor sitting posture can cause numbness of lower limbs. Compression of ulnar artery and radial artery of upper limb can cause hand numbness. These are numbness of hands and feet caused by blood vessel compression and ischemia of blood supply limbs.

Neurological factors Palm mainly includes radial nerve, ulnar nerve and median nerve. These nerves start from the cervical spinal canal, pass through joints, ligaments and bone fiber tubes, and reach the distal end of the palm. When the nerves in any part are compressed, it will cause numbness in the hands.

Brain factor All nerves come from the brain. When there is something wrong with the brain, such as a stroke, the areas controlled by the brain will have symptoms of numbness and weakness. Systematic factors.

Hyperlipidemia: Hyperlipidemia for a long time can easily lead to hardening of blood vessel wall, thick blood and slow blood flow, which will reduce the oxygen nutrients obtained by cells and lead to numbness of hands and feet.

Hyperglycemia, long-term hyperglycemia, causes arteriosclerosis, nerve degeneration, numbness of hands and feet.

The compressed cervical nerve comes out of the intervertebral foramen and divides into two branches. The anterior branch extends downward and outward to the forearm, forming ulnar nerve, radial nerve and median nerve. The posterior branch bypasses the posterior joint of the cervical vertebra to the rear, and the muscles and skin distributed behind the cervical vertebra will cause hand numbness no matter whether the anterior branch or the posterior branch is pressed.

How to relieve finger numbness 1, patients with elbow flexion stand on their backs against the wall, or lie on their backs in bed, with their upper arms together to bend their elbows, and perform external rotation with elbow points as the fulcrum.

2. The patient with finger climbing the wall stands facing the wall, and slowly climbs up along the wall with the fingers of the affected side, so as to raise the upper limbs as much as possible, make a mark on the wall, and then slowly return to the original position, repeatedly, and gradually increase.

3. Patients with hands behind their bodies stand naturally. When the upper limb of the affected side is pronated and extended backward, the hand of the healthy side pulls the hand or wrist of the affected side, and gradually pulls it to the healthy side and above.

4. When standing with arms straight, the patient's upper limbs naturally droop, his arms are straight, his palms slowly extend downward, and he is forcibly lifted upward. After reaching the maximum, he stopped for 10 minutes, and then returned to the original position to repeat.

5. Patients who touch the spine after stretching naturally stand. In the posture of supination and extension of the affected upper limb, elbow flexion, wrist flexion, middle finger pulp contact with spinal spinous process, and gradually move to the maximum from bottom to top, and then slowly return to the original position after 2 minutes, repeatedly, and gradually increase.