What Causes Numbness?

Many people feel numbness or numbness like symptoms and they can be very annoying and aggravating. We treatment many patient who have numbness, but numbness is usually not their only symptom. Their numbness is usually accompanied by neck pain or lumbar spine pain. Numbness can also be called transient sensory neurapraxia, which is the scientific name. The point is numbness usually does not happen unless there is nerve involvement, meaning a nerve is injured or is pinched. Most of the time in chiropractic we find that a patient has spinal dysfunction which causes the nerve to be irritated, injured, or pinched. When the nerve is affect where ever that nerve goes to is going to be equally effected with numbness or symptoms.

As chiropractors, we can find out what is causing the spinal dysfunction and also find what is causing the numbness. More often than not if the spinal dysfunction is alleviated then the numbness usually clear up when the nerve heals. Numbness can also occur out of the spine as well, although we find the spine to be most common area. The problem is that nerves are all throughout the body and sometimes they have to travel near the skin and have to go through little holes in the bone called foramina, there is a possibility the problem can arise from these area as well. The good news is that chiropractors are well versed in finding where the nerve is injured at and where to fix it. If you have numbness and it's driving you crazy, check out Twisted Spine and Joint Center in Plano to see if they can help.