If you sit before the computer too much and have been using the same chair and bed for years, your cervical spinal nerves and those at the height below your shoulder blades could be compressed.
Holding your arms too much in front of you during long hours of sitting at the computer, every day, creates the classic "hole" in your spine. The muscles strain to hold your disks in an unnatural position causing spine nerves to compress.
- Change your chair, if you can, buy a new one, that provides a perfect flat sitting surface, (no tilting seat!: in some chairs' the front end of the seat bends upwards pressing / closing the blood vessels in your legs). Buy an adjustable height chair that supports your spine well or get special chairs.
- Buy a nice hard bed, maybe a coconut mattress, as thick as your palm held at its side (couple of inches) to measure thickness and not more. That will nicely hold your spine straight, your body won't "sink in" at the buttocks like soft beds allow, while you are sleeping. You can put a "door" or wooden plank underneath to further stabilize sleeping position.
I lessened my symptoms by:
- employing a two inch thick sitting sponge with folded clothing underneath and this padding changes position daily on my chair. There are special chairs for holding your spine in a natural position.
- hanging by the arms on a heavy stable platform, during resistance exercise training, and shaking my body by pulling myself up a tiny bit quickly and releasing the body "to fall" - remaining hanging of course - causing the spine to straighten and the disks hopefully loosened. Hospitals do some similar therapy by hanging people by their skull / jaw bones in a special frame, so their almost full body weight pulls on the spine [compressed disks go apart]
- I strengthen my back and sixpack/torso/chest muscles by doing athletics:
- lying on my belly and doing a set of inverse situps with legs swinging freely (and also normal situps)
- hanging (by the hands only) on same platform and pulling up both feet so they touch the steel pipe I'm hanging on. Pull-ups. Fully straightening up during athletic frog jumps = also bending my spine backwards while at the "top" of the frog jump in the air
- "jumping" push ups: holding classic push-up position, going down just a bit (to spare my shoulder joints) then propelling my whole body upward somewhat, so both legs and hands leave the ground and the body "jumps up" a little into the air. This strengthens the back and torso.
- STRETCHING!! Also bending back from kneeling position and lying down with lower legs underneath or beside the body
- spending time before the computer monitor I squat, kneel or stand as well, while working or reading or watching something.
- taking time for walks
- magnesium, 5 HTP and GABA before sleep, to loosen muscles
- when I feel I got stuck in the old, normal sitting position again and notice my spine getting awkward, I immediately change sitting position - turn sideways or put one leg on the seat, so the whole spine position changes and with it which disks hold my sitting weight also. This way the unnatural position cannot continue to the point of finger and arm pain, numbness.
There are many different spinal conditions that can cause nerve (root) compression.
_http://www.healthhype.com/arm-numbness-tingling-hands-and-fingers.html
_http://www.healthhype.com/causes-of-tingling-and-numbness-paresthesia.html
