Nerve Damage Repair
Enhancing the Way You Function with Nerve Damage Repair
Symptoms of Nerve
Damage to Your Hands
- Numbness in the fingers or hand
- Burning, cold or electrical pain
- Ants crawling’ sensation in fingers or hand
- Problems positioning the hand correctly
- Tingling, crushing, squeezing sensations
- Sensitivity to touch
- The abnormal posture of fingers or hand
- Loss of muscle bulk in hand causing the hollow appearance
Causes of Your Sagging Skin
Direct Repair
Nerves of your hands
The radial nerve runs at the back of your arm, forearm and hand, controlling the muscle that straightens your wrist, fingers and thumb and provides sensation to the back of your thumb, forefinger finger, middle finger and half of the ring finger.
It can get injured during the fracture of the humerus, i.e. upper arm bone, or when pressure is applied on it for too long, for instance, if you sleep on your arm for a long period, known as Saturday night palsy. If you have a damaged radial nerve, it can cause a ‘dropped hand’ or dropped fingers’ where you are unable to lift or straighten your fingers or wrist. It can cause numbness in your hand and is an extremely painful condition.
This nerve runs on the inner side of your arm, forearm, wrist and hand, and it controls the muscles that bend your wrist, little finger, all the small muscles in your hand for fine finger movements and provides sensation to the inner part of your palm and little finger.
Injury to your ulnar nerve can cause a claw hand where your fingers are curled or bent tightly with having difficulty straightening them. With ulnar nerve damage, your gripping and pinching are weakened, and you face difficulty in performing fine movements with your fingers, causing clumsiness and frequently droppings things.
Your median nerve goes along the front of your elbow down in the middle of your forearm, wrist and into your hand. It is responsible for the muscles that bend your fingers, wrist and the muscles that control the movement of your thumb.
Injury to your median nerve can cause numbness in most of your hand and difficulty in picking up things. Compression to this nerve can cause carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Common Injures and Causes
of Nerve Damage in Your Hand
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Trigger finger
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- Dupuytren’s contracture
- De Quervain’s Disease
- Cutting, crushing injury
- Thermal injuries
- Chronic diseases
- Traumatic injuries
- Metabolic issues
- Deep burns
- Infections
- Toxin exposure
- Electrical injuries
- Sudden excessive stretching
FAQ’s
Nerve damage can cause an inability to perform your normal functions and feel various sensations. It is because of your nerves that you are able to tell whether something is soft or hard, cold or hot, smooth or rough, etc., and carry out the right response. The goal of nerve repair surgery is to repair the damaged nerve and restore normal function.
When left untreated, nerve damage can worsen over time. Motor nerves that are responsible for carrying out movements; have a time limit for regenerating. The surgical repair for motor nerves needs to happen within 12-18 months of the injury; otherwise, the nerve dies away, and muscles wither. Damage to sensory nerves, which helps you feel different sensations, can induce further injuries as you don’t get any protective sensations.
Overuse injury, also called repetitive strain injury, occurs when you do the same movement over and over again for a long time.
A nerve injury of the hand can occur when the finger, hand, or wrist is overstretched, crushed, cut, or burned.
Mild nerve injuries are capable of healing themselves. But the majority of nerve injuries require medical intervention. Nerves are delicate threads, and they carry very important information, so leaving them untreated without a doctor’s supervision can be a dangerous oversight.
Non-surgical treatments for mild nerve injuries can include rest, splinting, icing, medicines, and physical therapy. For severe nerve injuries, a nerve repair surgery is necessary for rejoining the disconnected ends of your nerves to restore the functions and sensations of the hand.
If some kind of accident has caused a wound, and there are signs of nerve injury, then operation becomes necessary to look at the nerves and repair the damage. In other cases, symptoms are analyzed, and different tests are done to verify nerve injury and its severity.
- CT scan
- MRI
Nerve grafts are used when a significant amount of tissue from the nerve is damaged, leaving a gap so that the two ends of the nerve cannot be reconnected.
The direct nerve repair method is used when there is enough length on the ends of your nerve so that it can be reconnected without stretching.
If you have certain health conditions that exclude using nerve grafts, a nerve conduit can be used. It is a tube made up of biological or synthetic materials that span the gap and connects the nerve endings.
Your wrist is likely to be in a splint or bandage for 1 to 2 weeks. You might experience some discomfort or pain, which is easily managed by pain killers. As your nerve heals, you will feel unpleasant tingly sensations accompanied by electric shock feelings over the affected area, and the location of these sensations moves as your nerve heals and grows. Over time these sensations subside, and the area feels more normal. Complete nerve recovery can take anywhere from a few days to a few months, depending upon the type and severity of the damage to your nerve.
