Why do my hand and neck muscles hurt?

Hands are one of the parts of our body that we use most frequently. If we move our hands too much, it will cause symptoms such as pain in the hands and neck. However, if it is pain in the muscles of the hands and neck, we should pay attention to it. This is not only caused by fatigue, but may also contain a great risk of disease. We need to understand the reasons behind it. So, what causes pain in the wrist and neck?

In fact, the cause of wrist and neck pain may be fatigue caused by excessive use of the wrist and neck in daily life, but it may also be caused by rheumatism.

Rheumatism is a group of diseases that mainly affect joints, bones, muscles, blood vessels and related soft tissues or connective tissues, most of which are autoimmune diseases. The onset is often hidden and slow, the course of the disease is long, and most cases have a genetic predisposition. Both diagnosis and treatment are somewhat difficult; different autoantibodies can be detected in the blood, which may be related to different HLA subtypes; there is a good short-term or long-term relief response to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), glucocorticoids and immunosuppressants.

Clinical manifestations of rheumatism

1. Most rheumatic diseases have joint lesions and symptoms, which can be as high as 70-80%. About 50% only have pain, while severe cases have comprehensive inflammatory manifestations such as redness, swelling, heat, pain and impaired function; most of the time, multiple joints are affected. The size of the joints affected varies depending on the type of disease.

2. Heterogeneity, that is, the same disease has different subtypes. Due to different genetic backgrounds, causes and mechanisms, the types, symptoms, severity and treatment responses of clinical manifestations are also different.

3. Rheumatic diseases are mostly multi-system diseases. The pathologies of many diseases overlap and the symptoms are similar. MCTD is a typical example of this.

4. Various antibodies and immune complexes (CIC) appear in the serum and can be deposited in tissues (skin, synovium) or organs (kidney, liver) to cause disease.

5. Raynaud's phenomenon often occurs in this type of disease, such as SLE and MCTD.