Do You Have Sleepy Hands?

I have heard many of my clients voice a concern that their hands fall asleep at night. Many people suffer from nightly pins-and-needles in their hands, and quite commonly disregard the symptom as a normal occurrence of adulthood.  Sure, if we sleep in unusual positions our hands can sometimes fall asleep under the weight of our body, or if we’re putting our hands in awkward positions where blood cannot flow, we can expect that our hands will fall asleep.  However, if it happens every night  and wakes you from a sound sleep, you should probably take notice of a few details.

1. Is it my whole hand that falls asleep, or just a few fingers?
2. If just a few fingers are feeling the numbness and tingling, which ones are they?
3. Do both of my hands fall asleep?
4. How long has thing been going on?

When our hands fall asleep on a continual basis, this could be due to compression upon our peripheral nerves within our neck and arms.  Compression upon our nerves can happen at several places along the path of the nerve when it leaves our spine and proceeds down to our hands.  This is why it’s important to note which fingers you are feeling the numbness in.  Stresses upon different peripheral nerves will present with different symptoms (as shown in the picture below).  In some cases it is a muscle that is causing the compression upon the nerve. Massage can help to relieve nerve impingements caused by muscles, thereby rehabilitating the conductivity of the nerve (depending upon the severity of the compression).  This is good news for those of us with sleepy hands, as it is a very treatable condition.
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