Treatment and prevention of shoulder pain after waking up

Many people wake up after a night of pain and aches all over, especially a painful numbness in the shoulder, nape, sometimes pain spreads to the shoulder blades, numbs the arms, forearms and fingers. This symptom can last for days or even months . The nape of shoulder pain syndrome is usually not dangerous, but it can cause a lot of anxiety, discomfort, fatigue for the sick person, and a decrease in strength. labor and quality of life.

What causes pain?

Common disease from middle age when the body, vascular system has reduced flexibility, elasticity.

There are many causes that can lead to neck shoulder pain syndrome. The most common causes include sitting, studying, wrong posture for a long time, driving, working continuously with computers .; Cold and sudden colds reduce the supply of oxygen to muscle cells, causing ischemia in the muscles leading to shoulder pain syndrome. In addition, the shoulder pain syndrome can also be caused by diseases such as cervical spondylosis, herniated disc herniation, congenital neck curvature, malformations, inflammation, neck injury, cancer, tuberculosis , back pit .

Common in people who often lie on their sides, twitch, sit and work, misbehavior; When the body is weak, the circulating system's speed is reduced, blood circulation and oxygen exchange in the body will be less likely to hurt when you wake up. Sometimes there are cases of shoulder pain syndrome appearing spontaneously without a clear cause.

Prolonged shoulder pain will greatly affect health.

It is necessary to identify the disease through a previous X-ray of the left and right frontal spine to see if there is an image of a prickle bone or narrowing the synaptic hole causing pain.

Depending on the extent of the disease , the patient has different manifestations in this disease. The patient may have a dull ache or severe pain in the nape area that spreads to the ear and neck on one side. The level of pain from less to more affects the head-neck posture. It is also possible that the pain from the nape of the neck spreads to the shoulder blades, the arms on one side or both sides, with a painful feeling like an electric shock. There is a case of arm shoulder pain on one side, after a while, the patient has a feeling of numbness in the pain on the side of the hand - this may be a sign of tendon reflex disorder. There are also people with pain spread to the sides and accompanied by feeling dizzy, dizzy, tinnitus, walking staggered, difficult to swallow.

Pain can occur spontaneously or after heavy labor, fatigue, stress, and cold. Pain may be acute (sudden appearance) or chronic (dull, prolonged). Pain often has mechanical properties: increased when standing, walking, sitting long, coughing, sneezing, moving the cervical spine; decrease when resting. Pain can also increase when the weather changes. To diagnose the cause, patients need to have a physical examination. Diagnostic aids include cervical X-ray scans, electromyography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the cervical spine.

In many cases, the shoulder pain is prolonged, so the patients always feel extremely tired, uncomfortable, not focused, poor thinking . greatly affecting the quality of life of patients.

Is treatment difficult?

Depending on the extent of the disease, the patient has different manifestations in this disease.

If the disease is mild, the pain does not last long, the patient himself may be able to relieve himself by using a high paste or using two hands to massage, knock, stroke the neck, shoulders, and neck several times to relieve pain. Or you can go to physiotherapy or Oriental medicine clinics for massage, acupressure, acupuncture.

Drugs commonly used in the treatment of shoulder pain syndrome include anti-inflammatory analgesics, nerve blockers, muscle relaxants and vitamin B group. Depending on the cause, doctors will have different management methods. If elimination of the causes of compression and injury, the treatment is mainly to use conventional painkillers, maybe by mouth, with high paste. Patients can also take vitamin E 400mg, take 1 tablet daily. In addition, it is possible to combine massage and pressing measures, gently tap the nape area, shoulder blades, arms. However, patients also need to remember that reflexology is not allowed to be applied to acupressure or exercise in the acute phase. Some cases of patients need to be treated with surgery: disc herniation, spondylosis, scoliosis .

Practice to prevent it

To prevent neck, shoulder pain, need to sit, stand, sleep . right position.

To prevent neck, shoulder pain, need to sit, stand, sleep . right position. Do not work too long at a desk, especially with a computer, sometimes stopping to perform movements of the spine of the neck, shoulders and hands. Need to keep the neck always straight, avoid the wrong position when sitting, reading or typing, do not bend your neck for too long; not lying on your head to read a book or watching television will mislead the posture of your neck. Should head low when sleeping, the best pillow should only be about 10cm high. When watching television, leaning back against the cushion, head slightly back to the back of the chair, neck resting on one point.

Do not break the neck joint, arm, shoulder cracking. Many people think that doing so will help relieve aches and pains but actually cause the opposite effect, because if the disk has degenerated causing neck pain, when breaking or twisting, it will create momentum for the herniated disc to go out and do more severe illness; When shoulder pain, the nape should rest, limiting movement for a few days, adding some minerals to the body such as calcium, potassium and vitamins C, B and E; Take a warm bath, massage to help relax the pain, increase circulation in the body.

In addition, patients should regularly practice sports with appropriate exercises ; movement, rest, recess between working hours, should take breaks when sitting for a long time; avoid stress; practice nourishing movements, stretch your body like arching your neck, bow your head forward, tilt your head back, tilt your head to the left, to the right, circle your head and neck, move your neck up and down . Regularly will prevent and relieve symptoms of the disease.