Mouse hand symptoms and treatment

Mouse hand is called wrist syndrome, which is mainly caused by excessive use of the wrist, causing nerve damage or nerve compression. The patient's index and middle fingers often experience numbness, swelling and pain, and even cramps and other symptoms. When these symptoms appear, you must seek timely treatment, pay attention to hand care, and do moderate exercise to promote blood circulation.

Mouse hand symptoms

1. The patient's fingers, palms, wrists, and even forearms and elbows will experience stiffness, soreness and other discomfort symptoms;

2. The patient's fingers and palms will have intermittent numbness and tingling;

3. The patient's hand grip strength and the ability of various parts of the hand to work together will be reduced;

4. The patient will feel uncomfortable and painful when extending the thumb. In severe cases, the patient's fingers and hands will feel weak.

5. The patient's pain may migrate to the arms, upper back, shoulders and even neck, and will become more severe at night, sometimes even affecting sleep; the feeling of numbness often occurs during sleep and just after waking up.

Mouse hand treatment

Regarding the treatment of mouse hand, we can divide it into two categories: traditional Chinese medicine treatment and Western medicine treatment.

1. Treat mouse hand with traditional Chinese medicine. The main treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine include oral medication, external application of medication, acupuncture, massage, etc. If the patient's mouse hand is caused by sprain, contusion or strain, massage can effectively relieve the symptoms caused by mouse hand.

2. Western medicine treatment of mouse hand. The main treatment methods of Western medicine include non-surgical treatment and surgical treatment. Surgical treatment is mainly for patients whose symptoms are severe and whose symptoms have not improved or relieved after 2 months of conservative treatment. If mouse hand symptoms are mild, non-surgical treatments may be possible.

In addition, patients with mouse hand can also use exercise therapy to relieve the symptoms caused by mouse hand. For example, rotating the wrist 25 times clockwise and counterclockwise each day can effectively relieve the soreness of the wrist muscles.

Causes of Mouse Hand

The causes of mouse hand can be divided into three categories: local factors, systemic factors and posture factors. But specifically speaking, the most common cause of mouse hand is our long-term contact and use of computers, which is the posture factor.

1. Local factors. This includes a decrease in carpal tunnel volume due to fractures and an increase in carpal tunnel contents due to tumors or other reasons.

2. Systemic factors. These include neurodegeneration caused by diabetes, alcoholism, infection and gout, as well as changes in fluid balance caused by pregnancy, oral contraceptives, hypothyroidism, etc.

3. Posture factors. This is what we often call excessive wrist use. In addition to long-term contact and use of computers, disabled people walking with crutches and repeated flexion and extension of fingers and wrists may cause excessive wrist use and lead to mouse hand.