Glossary for Tingling fingers

Medical terms related to Tingling fingers or mentioned in this section include:

• Alcoholic Neuropathy: Neurological changes due to nerve damage from long-term alcohol consumption
• Anxiety attack: Sudden onset of extreme anxiety
• Arm paresthesia: Arm tingling, prickling, numbness or burning sensations
• Arm symptoms: Symptoms affecting the arm
• Basilar artery migraine: Basilar migraine (BM), also known as Bickerstaff syndrome, consists of headache accompanied by dizziness, ataxia, tinnitus, decreased hearing, nausea and vomiting, dysarthria, diplopia, loss of balance, bilateral paresthesias or paresis, altered consciousness, syncope, and sometimes loss of consciousness.
• Broken finger: Fracture of a finger bone
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Hand or wrist problems; often from repetitive motion.
• Cervical Spondylosis: Condition where bony changes within the cervical spine causes spinal cord compression with associated neck pain; usually seen in patients over 40 years of age.
• Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: A rare disorder involving swelling of nerve roots and destruction of the protective layer around nerves. Severe symptoms can take up to a year or more to develop.
• Common symptoms: The most common symptoms
• Diabetic neuropathy: nerve damage which maybe motor, sensory and autonomic
• Erythromelalgia: A rare disorder characterized by periods of burning pain, redness and warmth in the feet and hands.
• Finger numbness: Loss of feeling or sensation
• Finger paresthesia: Finger tingling, prickling, numbness or burning sensations
• Finger symptoms: Symptoms affecting any fingers
• Fractures: Breakage of bones
• Frostbite: damage to skin, soft tissues and blood vessels due to extreme cold
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome: An acute condition which is characterized by polyradiculoneuropathy that affects the peripheral nervous system
• Halm-Munk syndrome: A rare inherited disorder involving red, thickened patches of skin on the palms and soles, skin infections and nail and teeth abnormalities.
• Hand numbness: Loss of feeling or sensation
• Hand paresthesia: Hand tingling, prickling, numbness or burning sensations
• Hand symptoms: Symptoms affecting the hand
• Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies: A rare disorder where the peripheral nerves are more sensitive to pressure than normal which results in recurring periods of numbness, tingling and sometimes loss of muscle function. The condition can affect one or more nerves such as the carpal tunnel nerve. Permanent damage to peripheral nerves can result from recurring episodes. The severity of symptoms are greatly variable from virtually asymptomatic to disability.
• Hypocalcemia: Low blood calcium levels
• Hypoparathyroidism: causesd by lack of PTH
• Hypoparathyroidism familial isolated: A rare familial condition involving low levels of parathyroid hormone which upsets the body's ability to regulate calcium and phosphate. The severity of symptoms is determined by the how low the parathyroid hormone level is.
• Hypopigmented lesions in children:
• Keratosis palmoplantaris - periodontopathia - onychogryposis: A rare syndrome characterized by gum disease, nail and skin problems and various other anomalies.
• Leprosy: A chronic, progressive infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae which causes skin sores and also affects the eyes, mucous membranes and peripheral nerves.
• Limb symptoms: Symptoms affecting the limbs
• Multiple Sclerosis: Autoimmune attack on spinal nerves causing diverse and varying neural problems.
• Neck symptoms: Symptoms affecting the neck
• Nerve symptoms: Symptoms affecting the nerves
• Pain: Any type of pain sensation symptoms.
• Panic attack: A condition which is characterized by an acute episode of intense anxiety
• Panic disorder: is a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood
• Paresthesia: Tingling, prickling, or pins-and-needles sensations
• Paresthesias: Tingling, prickling, numbness or burning sensations
• Peripheral neuropathy: Any loss in the function of the peripheral nervous system
• Peripheral vascular disease: Disease of arteries supplying the legs or sometimes arms
• Pernicious anemia: A megaloblastic anaemia due to malabsorption of the vitamin B12
• Radiation-Induced Brachial Plexopathy: A nerve injury that occurs as a complication of radiation treatment to the upper chest area.
• Raynaud's phenomenon: A condition where the body extremities sweat and turn blue and cold. Exposure to cold, emotional stress and smoking may trigger the condition. Also known as acrocyanosis.
• Scleroderma, systemic: A rare autoimmune connective tissue disease where the body attacks parts of the body and causes scarring and thickness of the tissue. In the systemic form, the skin and organs are involved.
• Sensations: Changes to sensations or the senses
• Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord: Gradual spinal cord degeneration
• Tetany: Involuntary cramps of the muscles caused by low blood calcium levels.
• Thoracic outlet syndrome: Pinched shoulder/arm nerve.
• Tingling: Tingling, prickling, or pins-and-needles sensations
• Ulnar nerve injury: Damage to the ulnar nerve in the elbow and arm.

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