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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

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What Are The Electric Shock Sensations I Feel In My Upper Back?

keep getting these electric shock sensations in my upper back more to the left side, sometimes it can be really painful and it literally jerks my entire body when it happens. When it happens it happens so randomly. It might not happen for weeks and sometimes it happen multiple times a day for days. It doesn t matter if I m waking, standing, laying ect.. it just comes out of nowhere. I haven t always had it, it only started roughly about ago. The only thing I can put it down to is after a I moved I hurt my back and ever since I ve been getting the electric shock sensations. I haven t really worried about seeing a doctor because it goes away but always comes back.
Wed, 22 Jul 2015
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Dear friend,thanks for your consultation.it seems that the upper back pain is really bothering you and it is really painfull and electric shock like .as far as you have given your trauma history ,you have hurt your back.from my clinical experienece I am telling you that you might either have injured your lower back muscle or vertebral bone of that region.an injured muscle or a group of muscles always give rise to this kind of pain.also see there is a sponge like thing in between our vertebral bones.it is called vertebral disc.if you have injured this disc or the disc is displaced then the nerve in between two vertebrae is getting irritated causing pain.so to know for sure you should go for a X-Ray and MRI of that region to know if there is any structural problem in that region like fracture of any vertebra or dispalced disc or any muscle tear.my best wishes for you .thank you.
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What Are The Electric Shock Sensations I Feel In My Upper Back?

Dear friend,thanks for your consultation.it seems that the upper back pain is really bothering you and it is really painfull and electric shock like .as far as you have given your trauma history ,you have hurt your back.from my clinical experienece I am telling you that you might either have injured your lower back muscle or vertebral bone of that region.an injured muscle or a group of muscles always give rise to this kind of pain.also see there is a sponge like thing in between our vertebral bones.it is called vertebral disc.if you have injured this disc or the disc is displaced then the nerve in between two vertebrae is getting irritated causing pain.so to know for sure you should go for a X-Ray and MRI of that region to know if there is any structural problem in that region like fracture of any vertebra or dispalced disc or any muscle tear.my best wishes for you .thank you.