Obviously the spinal cord is connected to the entire body, so if something was wrong with it, could it not cause pain elsewhere?
All I can ever find is that nerve damage causes numbness, but what about sharp pains?
Because I have sciatica pretty much all the time, and that is a very sharp nerve pain that does not cause numbness.
I just recently experienced a new kind of nerve pain that effected both quadriceps muscles, there was muscle twitching and the muscles felt heavy like bricks, very fatigued and sometimes I felt burning sensations, and a constant tingly, pins and needly sensation, but it did not hurt, it was just extremely uncomfortable.
Anyways, I'm just wondering because I have some unexplained "injuries" that could be the result of nerves.
For example, many years ago I woke up in the middle of the night in excruciating pain, this sharp electrocuting pain was throbbing in my right toe, it felt like a current of electricity. They never figured out what it was, and ever since it's been chronic sharp pain, so bad that I can't put weight on it.
They already know I have degenerating discs and I always thought the toe pain was related to my back, but because they saw inflammation in the toe they were convinced it was an actual injury, but I never did anything to it.
Anyways, just recently I injured my thumb while playing badminton and felt a very sharp pain. I've been playing badminton for years and it shouldn't have injured that easily, but it did, so I went to physio and he said it was a sprain, but his treatment didn't work so he gave up. Then I went to another physiotherapist who said it was tendonitis and that diagnosis made more sense but it's still not healing with the treatment recommended for that.
I'm just wondering if maybe it's not the tendon at all, and maybe it's also a nerve problem.
I looked at the anatomy of the hand and the pain is coming from where a nerve is. The only thing is there is a tendon near there too, so I'm not sure how to tell the difference.