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Representative Director
of the Inter-American Division of
Self-developed Oriental Medicine Hospital
Oriental Medicine doctor
/ a doctor of Oriental medicine
Lee Woo-kyung

자생한방병원 대표원장
이 우경

ARM NUMBNESS AFTER GOLF CAN LEAD TO A DISC

골프 후에 팔저림이 오래된다면

디스크를 의심해야

uring the past 12 years of treatment at a spine and down to the elbow. Most patients at first don't think much
Djoint specialty hospital, I have seen many patients of it, but eventually go to the hospital after the symptoms
related to it. One of the most common among these is worsen.
arm numbness. Surprisingly, there are quite a few cases
where this arm numbness comes after intense golf In Korea, since there is an MRI center in the basement
practice. A tingling pain that usually starts in the neck of an oriental medicine hospital, most of these patients
goes through the shoulder and goes all the way down to have it taken on the same day. In my experience, more
the arm. This symptom does not often start suddenly, than 80% of patients in this case are diagnosed with a
and at first it starts as an uncomfortable feeling that the herniated disc of the neck. The disc between the bones
neck does not turn well left or right after a strong driver of the neck protrudes backwards or sideways and presses
or long iron shot, and then gradually goes down to the on the spinal nerves, causing a feeling of obstruction or
back between the wing bones or spreads to the armpit. In numbness in the arm. However, in the United States,
severe cases, it goes down the side or back of the arm and patients' insurance problems and the complexity

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