Symptoms | Left arm pain – What do I have?

Symptoms

The accompanying symptoms of pain in the left arm can be very different. If a numbness occurs in addition to the pain in the left arm, one can assume that a nerve is pinched or damaged. If, on the other hand, the arm can no longer be moved properly because the pain becomes too strong, one can assume bursitis, inflammation of the muscles or arthrosis.

If the pain in the left arm occurs after a vaccination, the symptoms are harmless and can only be considered as a result of the vaccination. However, the pain should disappear after a few days. However, if the accompanying symptoms are sweating and nausea, older patients should immediately think of a heart attack and notify the emergency doctor!

This is always an emergency that must be taken seriously. Depending on the disease, the therapy for pain in the left arm varies. In case of overstrain or after a vaccination, only wait until the pain in the left arm disappears.

However, it is also possible to train the arm slowly and thus promote muscle growth through continuous muscle training.If an inflammation of the bursa is responsible for the pain in the left arm, a longer physiotherapy should be considered as therapy. Also a glucocorticoid injection into the subacromial space is possible in more severe cases to reduce the swelling. In case of complaints due to nerve entrapment, physiotherapy should be considered as therapy and possibly a change of lifestyle (no telephoning with a trapped handset).

Also in case of osteoarthritis, the best therapy option is physiotherapy and regular muscle training. In the case of a heart attack, however, therapy is difficult. Although patients are given nitrate-containing preparations directly after the heart attack, which ensure that the coronary vessels dilate again, complete therapy is not possible. Once heart muscle cells have died, they cannot be regenerated and therefore there is no therapy that can undo a heart attack. However, the pain in the left arm quickly disappears again after a heart attack.