What is Left Arm Pain?
Arm pain is a very common symptom of multiple conditions. Pain, stiffness, or soreness can be felt anywhere from your fingers to your shoulders. You can be experiencing pain in either your right or left arm. You might also feel numb, swollen, or itchy. Pain in the arms may start up suddenly or gradually.
Pain in the left arm can be alarming as well as indicates underlying medical problems. Some causes don’t need to be treated immediately while others might.
Causes of left arm pain:
Heart Related Disorders:
Sometimes heart-related disorders can cause arm pain, particularly in the left arm. These conditions include:
- Angina:
Angina occurs when your heart requires more oxygen-rich blood, which causes chest pain. Chest pain from angina might extend to your arms.
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT):
When a blood clot forms in one of your deep veins, you may develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Your blood may not flow properly as a result.
- Heart attack (Myocardial Infarction):
A heart attack happens when your heart’s blood supply is reduced or stops altogether. Sweating, feeling dizzy or shortness of breath may occur alongside it. This is a severe medical condition that has to be treated right away.
Arthritis :
Your joints become stiff and swollen when you have arthritis, a painful condition. Many of the more than 100 kinds of arthritis can impact your hands, wrists, and arms.
- Osteoarthritis:
When the cartilage lining your joints begins to deteriorate, your bones will begin to rub against one another.
- Rheumatoid arthritis:
One type of arthritis that develops when your immune system attacks the tissues lining your joints is called rheumatoid arthritis. It usually affects your hands, wrists, and fingers.
- Psoriatic arthritis:
The inflammatory form of arthritis is called psoriatic arthritis. It is linked with skin.
Overuse injuries:
- Bursitis:
This condition occurs by swelling of the bursae, which are fluid-filled sacs that act as cushions between your muscles, bones, and tissues.
- Rotator cuff tear:
A rotator cuff tear is a severe injury to the muscles and tendons that support your shoulder joint.
- Tendonitis:
Tendinitis is a painful disease which results from inflammation of the tendons that connect your muscles and bones. This can occur in many different kinds of locations, such as your wrist (wrist tendonitis or de Quervain’s tendonitis) and biceps (biceps tendonitis).
- Golfer’s elbow or tennis elbow:
Overloading the tendons in your elbow can result in either golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis) or tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis).
Injuries or Trauma
- Fractures:
Fracture of arm, shoulder, or collarbone can cause excruciating pain and limit one’s range of motion.
- Dislocations:
Shoulder or elbow dislocations can result in severe pain and deformity.
Nerve Related Issues
- Peripheral Neuropathy:
It happens when nerves in the arms or other limbs are damaged.
- Cervical Radiculopathy:
Damage, compression, or injury to a specific nerve could result in a pinched nerve. This can occasionally result in discomfort or numbness in an arm. It also includes burning sensation and tingling pins and needles like symptoms.
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome:
Compression to the median nerve in your wrist can result in carpal tunnel syndrome, a disorder that can cause pain and numbness across your hand.
- Brachial plexus injury:
An abrupt and sudden injury to the brachial plexus, (which is a network of nerves that runs from your spinal cord in your neck through your arms.
- Thoracic outlet syndrome:
It occurs when the blood vessels or nerves in your upper chest or lower neck are compressed.
Other Conditions causing pain in left arm:
- Cervical disc herniation:
A rupture or leak in one of the discs between your vertebrae is known as a herniated disc. Arm discomfort may result when this happens in your cervical spine, or neck.
- Shoulder impingement syndrome:
You might have this condition if you have shoulder pain when you raise your arm. The top outer edge of your shoulder blade rubs against the rotator cuff under it.
- Peripheral artery disease (PAD):
Blood that is rich in oxygen cannot reach the arm when the arteries in the arm narrow or become blocked. The symptoms of PAD include, Intermittent tightness, cramping, and numbness caused by exercise weakness feeling heavy, Loss of muscle in the affected arm, and Skin in the affected arm that is cold or discoloured.
- Cervical stenosis:
The term “stenosis” means narrowing. The portion of the spine between the shoulders narrows in cervical spinal stenosis, putting pressure on the nearby nerves. Arm weakness and discomfort may result from this.
- Sprains:
Sprains are injuries that happen when a ligament surrounding a joint is torn or stretched. The ligament in a wrist, elbow, or shoulder might sprain.
- Referred pain:
Diseases such as gallbladder or lung disorders might cause left arm pain.
Left arm pain treatment in Lahore at Physio Resource:
Physiotherapy for pain Relief:
At Physio Resource (physiotherapy clinic in Lahore) we believe in evidence-based treatments for the condition causing pain in left arm and address each case based on the needs of the client. We provide following treatment for left arm pain:
- Manual Therapy
- Therapeutic Exercises
- Osteopathy
- Postural training or correction
- Heat and cold therapy
- Ultrasound therapy
- Dry Needling
- Kinesiology Taping
- Myofascial release
- Soft tissue mobilization
- Electrical Stimulation Therapy (TENS/EMS)
- Traction
- Nerve glide
- Spinal decompression therapy
- Stretching and Strengthening Exercises that will include:
- PNF Stretching (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation)
- Isometric Exercises: Lower the chance of additional strain by strengthening
- Muscles without involving excessive movement.
- Progressive Resistance Exercises
- Functional Movement Training
- Neuromuscular Re-Education
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Address: 14-Ghalib Rd, Block D1, Gullberg III, Lahore
