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What Causes Extreme Pain In Arm?

I fell asleep sitting on the edge of my bed and did a somersault. I hit my arm and now I have pain numbness tingling and a feeling of electric shock in my hand arm fingers and shoulder. The pain is excruciating. What is causing this? the pain is extremely intense.
Wed, 18 May 2016
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hi,

thank you for providing the brief history of you

As you did somersault what could have occured is the stress to the cervical spine Nerve and got pined up due to which you are having symptoms of pain, numbrness, tingling, electric shock etc in the shoulder, arm, forearm, hand and fingers.

You need to take an MRI of the cervical spine to see the soft tissue status as well. Post which if needed a cervical collar should be used to stabilize the neck muscles and also the cervical spine to avoid much damage.

in my clinical practice we take first measure as MRI of cervical spine, followed by neck collar, medication and physical therapy.

Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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What Causes Extreme Pain In Arm?

hi, thank you for providing the brief history of you As you did somersault what could have occured is the stress to the cervical spine Nerve and got pined up due to which you are having symptoms of pain, numbrness, tingling, electric shock etc in the shoulder, arm, forearm, hand and fingers. You need to take an MRI of the cervical spine to see the soft tissue status as well. Post which if needed a cervical collar should be used to stabilize the neck muscles and also the cervical spine to avoid much damage. in my clinical practice we take first measure as MRI of cervical spine, followed by neck collar, medication and physical therapy. Regards Jay Indravadan Patel