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What Causes Numbness And Tingling Sensation In Neck And Arm?
Playing basketball 2 nights ago, suffered injury when I went top of my head into another players chest, felt like an accordion of popping in my neck followed by numbness/tingling/loss of feeling in my right arm. Tingling in neck also. Sensation went away in a few minutes. Came home and iced neck/back. Felt sore yesterday, but better today. Now experiencing pain in lower back on right side, and pain down the back of both legs. Just residual soreness or something that might require a closer look?
Mon, 18 Apr 2016
hi,
Thank you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough Neruomuscular assessment is advised.
Based on your complains and history, i am able to understand that you have suffered from a sport injury. Since the initial symptoms you had was numbness, tingling, loss of feeling in the right arm, there is a possibility of the cervical spine injury as your head impacted the chest of another player.
Also, the post symptoms are - pain in lower back on right side and pain down both the legs, - there can be a possibility of the lumbar spine injury.
I will advice to undergo a complete neuro-muscular assessment followed by an MRI of cervical and lumbar spine to note the extent of the soft tissue injury. Once doing this, a closer look to the soft tissue injury can be understood.
Once the diagnosis is made, the sports injury is treated with the special precaution and attention to send you back to sports. A physical therapist will come into the attention of your injury and treat you with Therapeutic ultrasound therapy and TENS therapy for controlling the initial symptoms post which the exercises will be made perform to strengthen the muscles and get to the optimum standard to go back to sports. Fitness training will be provided in the later stages to get you best fitness score and back to sports.
I have seen many cases and with 99% success rate all go back to sports. I wish the same from you
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
Thank you for providing the brief history of you.
A thorough Neruomuscular assessment is advised.
Based on your complains and history, i am able to understand that you have suffered from a sport injury. Since the initial symptoms you had was numbness, tingling, loss of feeling in the right arm, there is a possibility of the cervical spine injury as your head impacted the chest of another player.
Also, the post symptoms are - pain in lower back on right side and pain down both the legs, - there can be a possibility of the lumbar spine injury.
I will advice to undergo a complete neuro-muscular assessment followed by an MRI of cervical and lumbar spine to note the extent of the soft tissue injury. Once doing this, a closer look to the soft tissue injury can be understood.
Once the diagnosis is made, the sports injury is treated with the special precaution and attention to send you back to sports. A physical therapist will come into the attention of your injury and treat you with Therapeutic ultrasound therapy and TENS therapy for controlling the initial symptoms post which the exercises will be made perform to strengthen the muscles and get to the optimum standard to go back to sports. Fitness training will be provided in the later stages to get you best fitness score and back to sports.
I have seen many cases and with 99% success rate all go back to sports. I wish the same from you
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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