2. Numbness and Tingling
Numbness and tingling are some of the most common symptoms that can be associated with a range of different nerve-related and spinal injuries. If you experience any kind of numbness and tingling where you didn’t before, particularly after a traumatic injury to the neck or spine, it should be a priority to see your doctor as soon as possible. Where compression fractures happen, they risk very serious injury to the spinal column that could lead to trapped and damaged nerves, which is what causes the tingling and numbness as a symptom.
If a compression fracture or spinal injury happens to be the cause of your pain, then urgent scans are needed in order to establish the extent of the injury and how best to treat it from there.
Tingling and numbness might only happen at certain times of the day, may be a constant symptom or may recur after long absences. See your doctor in any (or all!) of these instances.