How To Tell If Pain In Your Hands Comes From Your Spine

There are many reasons for hand and wrist pain.  Most of them involve your muscles.

Sometimes the pain in your hands comes from a whole body disorder; it could be hypo-thyroidism or rheumatoid arthritis.  If this is your situation, you should be under the care of a doctor.  Even so, you may find that taking natural steps to relieve your hand and wrist symptoms will help (at least to some extent.)

Sometimes the pain, numbness and tingling in your hands starts from your neck bones (vertebrae or spinal bones in your cervical spine.)

Your neck bones stack up one over the other and nerves

run between the bones.

If bone or muscle is causing pressure on a nerve, it can cause symptoms (pain, numbness, tingling, etc.)  Nerves don’t like pressure.

You may be able to tell if your pain is coming from the the spine of your neck like this:

Gently, slowly turn your head toward one shoulder.  Pay attention.  Does this make your symptoms better?  Worse?

Tilt your chin slightly toward your arm and again observe.  Do you feel your symptoms more or less?  Do these two movements in the opposite direction and observe what you feel.

If you suspect that the nerves in your neck are causing your pain, don’t panic!

The remedy could be as simple as massage or pressure into your neck muscles and upper shoulder muscles to relax tight muscles.

Muscles move bones so even if a bone is pressing on a nerve, treating the muscles in the area (or at some distance–muscles may be affecting your neck from far away) can make a big, positive difference.

When the muscles around your cervical spine are not pulling on your neck bones or causing pressure on nerves, you can get rid of the pain in your hand and wrist naturally.