loss of feeling

[JohnGoodman]

a colleague just asked me a question, she was doing deep tissue and trigger point work on a client who she says has a high pain threshold. When the client got off the bed she apparently lost sensation in her arm for a few minutes, but when the feeling came back, she said that her shoulder problem had really loosened.

Any comments on the loss of sensation?

 

[vlcebunny]

My clients get all sorts of weird referrals pins/needles, feelings of release elsewhere in the body, sometimes impared feeling/sensations, releasing scalenes and pect minor can be very interesting indeed as far as arm hand sensations are concerned.

I tend to find with neck issues, scalenes are nearly always involved, short in other words. I know a lot of people overlook them and trigger sub occipitals and the other posterior muscles which allow the scalenes to shorten even more sometimes having a greater impact on odd sensations.

I had really short scalenes a few years ago, that used give me numb patch in my thumb.

I treated a guy diagnosed by a doctor with a torn pect. It was scalene impingement. No chest pain at all within 10 mins of treatment, didn't even work on the pect. Interesting game.

Sensation came back though, so your friend has nothing to worry about. Mind you, I've come across people who don't know how to differentiate between a trigger and stuffing their fingers into a nerve tract.

HTH.

Kevin

 

[Aye Jae]

maybe the therapist had been working in the area of the brachial plexus. I've been massaged myself and had numbness/tingling in my arm and hand because pressure was applied to the nerves. the complex of nerves runs right through the scalenes and under the clavical so any work in that area has to be done carefully. Communication with the client is crucial to monitoring these sorts of symptoms. Find out exactly where your colleague was working and whether they were communicating with the client - numbness shouldn't persist after the client gets off the table