{"id":3426,"date":"2019-05-27T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/2019\/05\/27\/how-do-you-know-if-you-have-a-pinched-nerve\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:00:05","slug":"how-do-you-know-if-you-have-a-pinched-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/2019\/05\/27\/how-do-you-know-if-you-have-a-pinched-nerve\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Know If You Have A Pinched Nerve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-761 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/nerve-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>You\u2019ve got a massive highway of nerves running through your body.<\/p>\n<p>Those nerves can become pinched any time there\u2019s pressure on the nerve, usually when it\u2019s compressed between two other tissues such as tendons, ligaments, or bones.<\/p>\n<p>That explanation sounds simple and straightforward enough. Of course, lacking X-ray vision, it\u2019s difficult to peer inside yourself to see if that\u2019s what\u2019s causing that sudden, shooting pain you\u2019re feeling.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of X-ray vision then, here\u2019s how you can tell if the pain you\u2019re feeling is indicative of a pinched nerve or not:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you feel a sharp, radiating pain that originates from a localized point on your body, especially in your neck or lower back. However, the pain could be most anywhere since you\u2019ve got nerves all over your body.<\/li>\n<li>If you feel weakness in the area where the pain is originating from, especially when performing certain repetitive motions.<\/li>\n<li>If you feel numbness or tingling (\u201cpins and needles\u201d), or if you feel a burning sensation from the area where the pain is originating from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, these symptoms aren\u2019t unique to nerve pain, so even if you\u2019re feeling all three, that\u2019s still not definitive.\u00a0 To get a definitive diagnosis, your best bet is to make an appointment with your chiropractor right away.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s impractical in the immediacy, the first thing you should do to treat the possible nerve damage is to rest the affected area.\u00a0 Stop doing whatever it was you were doing when the pain began. Consider if you moved differently than normal, which could have caused the pinched nerve.<\/p>\n<p>If the pain persists, use alternating ice and heat to try and reduce the swelling in the impacted area, which may help take pressure off the nerve.\u00a0 Assuming that there\u2019s no medical reason you can\u2019t take NSAIDs like naproxen, ibuprofen or aspirin, these also help to reduce swelling and should at least be considered. Again, an appointment to your chiropractor at your first opportunity is the ultimate solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-761 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/nerve-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>You\u2019ve got a massive highway of nerves running through your body. Those nerves can become pinched any time there\u2019s pressure on the nerve, usually when it\u2019s compressed between two other &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}