

This is very common as many people are sitting all day at a desk typing and mousing. These muscle knots (trigger points) can cause numbness or tingling in your hands as well. Muscles that get overused tighten up and get knots. Muscle knots causing numbness and tingling in your hands You bring your affected arm above you or straight behind you (like if you were to stretch your chest muscle) and you get numbness/tingling. Numbness/tingling is likely coming from the neck or shoulder if: Any movement of your head like looking up at the ceiling, tilting your head, or shoulder checking causes numbness/tingling.You get someone to press straight down on top of your head and hold gently and it causes the numbness/tingling.You tilt your head to the side as far as you can go (ear to your shoulder) and it causes the numbness/tingling.Numbness/tingling is likely coming from a pinched nerve in your neck if: Here are some things you can do to help determine if the numbness and tingling in your hands is caused by a pinched nerve. Once you find out where the nerve is being pinched you can get the proper treatment to take the pressure off the nerve. Any misaligned bone (spinal, shoulder or elbow bone) or muscle can compress or pinch your nerve and cause numbness and tingling. The nerves then exit your spine in your neck and weave in and out of muscles to make their way down to your finger tips. The nerves in your arm and hand come from you brain and travel down your spinal cord. Guillain-Barre syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis are autoimmune conditions that have hand tingling as a symptom.Any misaligned bone (spine, shoulder, elbow, or wrist bone) can compress or pinch your nerve and cause numbness and tingling in your arm and hand. This process can damage the peripheral nervous system, which can lead to tingling in the hands. Autoimmune diseases. In these conditions, the immune system attacks the body’s own healthy cells by mistake.Over time, not having enough thiamine can lead to conditions like beriberi and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, both of which cause tingling in the hands. Heavy alcohol use can lead to poor absorption of nutrients like thiamine (vitamin B1), which your body needs for a healthy nervous system. The pinched nerve can lead to tingling and/or numbness up to the palm and fingers. Carpal tunnel syndrome. This condition is caused by compression of the median nerve in the wrist.Sometimes, a heart problem like plaque buildup in your arteries (atherosclerosis) affects blood circulation and can cause symptoms like tingling hands. Having problems with blood flow can cause tingling in different parts of your body, including your hands. Tingling in the feet is also common with diabetes. It is a common symptom of metabolic disorders like diabetes. Peripheral neuropathy is damage to the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (peripheral nervous system). Nerves can be damaged from injury as well as metabolic problems. In some cases, nerve compression does not get better because it’s being caused by something else (like an injury, inflammation, or pressure from a tumor). The feeling of “pins and needles” or your hand “falling asleep” will usually get better when you change the position of your body so the nerve is not trapped.

This can cause a tingling in your hand while you’re trying to fall asleep. For example, you might compress a nerve in your arm because of your position in bed at night. If a nerve gets compressed or “trapped” it can cause tingling feelings.
