Pins and Needles

19th Oct 2011 Newsletter

Pins and Needles, What does it mean?

When was the last time you hit your ‘funny bone’? or fell asleep on your arm?, or when your foot has ‘gone to sleep’?
This happens to all of us at some stage.

Pins and Needles happens when one of your nerves gets slightly squashed. Your nerves need a blood supply to work, and when the blood supply to a nerve gets squashed, the nerve starts to function abnormally. If the nerve supplies your skin, then your skin can feel funny – or get pins and needles (parasthesia)

If the Blood supply (to an arm or leg or whatever) is cut off for long enough then it will go numb, and then your arm will ‘go to sleep’. As the nerve is released and the blood supply is restored, you will go from ‘being asleep’ to ‘pins and needles’ and back to ‘normal’ again.  Simple isn’t it?

Other parts of your body have a nerve supply, but no skin to feel pain or pins and needles, What happens when their nerve supply gets squashed? – If the nerve supplies muscle, then your muscle can twitch or go weak, if it supplies you co-ordination, then you can become clumsy, if the nerve supplies your stomach then you can get stomach pain or reflux or indigestion etc…

You can see that anywhere in your body can be affected by this process. arms, legs, neck, back, stomach, intestines, bladder, etc. Anything that has a nerve supply can experience abnormal function (symptoms or disease) from your nerves/and or blood supply getting squashed, pinched, or interrupted.

Chiropractic removes the interference to your nervous system so that you body can function as best as it possibly can, whether you are in pain, have pins and needles, have digestive problems or pretty much anything else.

Think someone you know needs to have their nervous system checked and their spine adjusted? they probably do!