Your hands contain some of the most sensitive touch receptors in your entire body, and all of those touch receptors are connected to your brain by a network of nerves. If even one of those nerves—or ...

This article was medically reviewed by Rekha Kumar, MD, an assistant professor of medicine and member of the Prevention Medical Review Board, on July 10, 2019. Your hands contain some of the most ...

Have you ever experienced a sensation where your fingers get numb or tingle? This phenomenon can be alarming and uncomfortable. Understanding what it means if your fingers get numb or tingle is ...

There are certain physical things you expect to happen with exercise, like getting breathless, sweaty, or fatigued. But when something out of the ordinary occurs—numb hands after a workout or tingly ...

You brush off that tingling in your fingers as sleeping funny or sitting too long at your computer. But finger numbness isn’t always harmless — it can be your body’s early warning system alerting you ...

WHEN one of my friends wanted to sign a cheque recently, and the two fingers to hold the pen couldn’t do the job, and a doctor suggested he may have had a partial stroke, he had to embark on serious ...

Paresthesia refers to the tingling, pricking, “pins and needles” sensation that occurs beneath the skin, according to the Cleveland Clinic. If you’ve ever “slept” on your hand, arm or leg, the ...

When it's extra cold outside, even if you remember your gloves or mittens, your fingers are always the first things to go numb. In this case, that's due to a process called vasoconstriction, in which ...

Waking up with numb hands is typically a sign of an issue with the circulation or the nerves in the arms. This can be due to falling asleep on the arms or with the hands in an awkward position. Less ...

A mom was diagnosed with brain cancer after the tingling in her arm was dismissed as anxiety. Kelsey Stoksted, 32, started ...

ST. LOUIS – Scott Atchison expected the soreness. Through the season’s quarter pole, the right-hander has dealt with it. But Monday’s revelation, numbness and tingling in his fingers, has he and the ...

WHEN one of my friends wanted to sign a cheque recently, and the two fingers to hold the pen couldn’t do the job, and a doctor suggested he may have had a partial stroke, he had to embark on serious ...