Contents:
- Medical Video: Treatments for Pinched Nerves in the Foot
- What causes numbness?
- 1. Wrong posture
- 2. Diabetes
- 3. Carpal tunnel syndrome
- 4. Multiple sclerosis
- 5. Vitamin B12 deficiency
- When should this numbness be examined?
Medical Video: Treatments for Pinched Nerves in the Foot
Have you ever heard the phrase "numb"? This expression is not only used to describe conditions that occur when a person has a broken heart. Numbness does not only occur in your sense of taste. Numbness can occur in any part of your body. What exactly is the cause of numbness?
Numbness or numbness is a condition where you can't feel anything. This condition occurs, because there is no stimulation in your nerves, which aims to send a sense signal to your body. Numbness is accompanied by a tingling sensation and a burning sensation. In most cases, numbness is often felt in the fingers, hands, feet, arms, and soles of your feet.
What causes numbness?
Numbness can occur due to many things, including:
1. Wrong posture
In most cases, the cause of numbness is most often due to a wrong posture. Standing or sitting with a particular footstool is heavier than the other, as well as when you sleep and the support of one hand is heavier than the other, it will give greater pressure to the hands and feet which are the fulcrum.
2. Diabetes
Diabetes can cause damage to blood vessels that play a role in flowing stimuli towards your hands and feet. This happens because diabetes can affect blood circulation which plays a role in sending stimuli. This condition can actually be dangerous, because your hands and feet can not feel when touched by something with a high temperature.
3. Carpal tunnel syndrome
Excessive pressure on the fingers and wrists can cause symptoms of numbness in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. This condition will be more often experienced, if you often make certain repetitive movements, which cause continuous pressure on your wrist.
4. Multiple sclerosis
Damage to the myelin sheath, which functions to protect the main pathway for stimulating the nervous system, can occur when you have multiple sclerosis. Apart from myelin sheaths, multiple sclerosis is also able to slow down the delivery of taste signals, from and to the nerves.
5. Vitamin B12 deficiency
Vitamin B12 has a role in forming the myelin sheath (the sheath that serves to protect the main pathway to nerve stimulation). Lack of vitamin B12 availability will certainly inhibit the formation of this sheath and the delivery of stimulation to the nerves.
When should this numbness be examined?
Most numbness conditions are actually harmless. Based on various causes, the treatment will depend on the cause of numbness you experience. But you should immediately see a doctor if:
- You experience sudden numbness for no apparent reason.
- Followed by pain in the neck and fingers.
- Followed by an increase in the frequency of urination.
- The numbness in your feet actually gets worse when you walk.
- Numbness occurs followed by the appearance of a rash.
- Other unusual symptoms arise.
- Occurs in one area almost as a whole. In all areas of the hand or foot, for example.
- Followed by head injuries.
- Last more than a few minutes.
