So either I've been popping my neck to such a degree that a nerve is pinched or compressed back there, or I have Carpal Tunnel. Both are thrilling propositions. I just started seeing a chiropractor last week, but it was only our intro session. This is starting to get scary. Who can I see to figure out the source of my thumb, pointer, and middle finger being numb for the past week? Any suggestions? (aside from stop popping my neck)
your median nerve seems like might be pinched. Can you oppose your thumb towards your pinky. If you can't that would mean your median nerve might be getting pinched at carpal tunnel.
A) I am not a doctor. Go see a doctor. B) If this is a recent phenomenon, and you haven't noticed anything building up to it before, have you recently been working in a chair with, say, plastic armrests, and kept your arm in the same position, unwittingly pinching that nerve? Similarly, have you been working at your desk for long periods, with your elbow placed on the edge of a table? Been using a mouse or video game controller for extended periods, repetitive tasks? If you haven't noticed symptoms before, it may just be a temporary injury. C) Also, don't let a chiropractor touch you. They're quacks. If one has recently re-aligned you, that may be the source of your injury.
B) pretty much yes to all the above, all the time. C) everyone has their opinion on "quack" practors, lol. I'm trying mine out for a month or more and seeing if it helps. I've tried a lot of things and this is one of them. It didn't start after I saw him this past Tues though.
Have you seen a massage therapist for your neck thing? I feel like that would probably help you a lot more than a chiropractor. A lot of people who crack their neck frequently end up with lots of muscle tension in that area.
Is there any finger movements that you are unable to perform? For example, extension, flexion, abduction, or adduction of your fingers. Also can you flex your wrist and extend your wrist? what about your forearm, can you extend and flex your forearm? Need more information to exactly know where the pinch of the nerve might be occurring.
Also, if the pinch is occurring around your neck region than you will have a lot more than just numbness in your finger.
The good news is that if you put those fingers on your junk then it's like someone elses hand. The bad news is that that someone else's hand is a dudes.
likely nerve compression around your wrist. start wearing a wrist splint for a few weeks to see if that helps.
stran·ger [streyn-jer] The act of sitting on one's hand for 20 minutes to make it go numb, and proceeding to jerk off with that hand. This will give the feeling of a hand job from someone else. Last night, when nobody was home, I gave myself a stranger.
I see value in chiropractors and alternative treatments, but your statement is kind of obtuse. Osteopathic doctors go to medical school and have almost a decade of training to become licensed. A chiropractor goes to school for 3 years.
DOs are trained in medicine with some additional quackary in the form of osteopathy. DOs and MDs are trained approximately the same in the grand scheme.
Hope you're doing better, OP. Whenever I do a lot of repetitive mouse work, and I notice discomfort, I can prevent the onset of numbness by changing hands, and resting the affected hand for several days at a time. Carpal tunnel = the price of modernity, apparently. The American Medical Association used to formally refer to chiropractors as an "unscientific cult," and considered associating with chiropractors to be unethical. If you believe that human disease can be explained by what amounts to bad posture, then you are an unscientific fool. It's as much pseudoscience as phrenology, or foot reflexology. Yes, having a massage feels great. But that's no reason to confuse your masseuse for a medical professional, who can, you know, actually cure disease. And, from personal experience, it is a bit more difficult to get a happy ending at a chiropractic clinic. Then the AMA was sued by chiropractors, not on the merits of chiropractors as doctors, but on anti-trust grounds. This distinction is important; sadly, they won. This forced the AMA to throw up its hands, under financial duress, and revise their medical ethics. Chiropractors are indeed in a cult of quacks, but like scientologists, they'll sue you if you actually say so.
