When I bang my elbow on something metal, a burning sensation shoots up my arm, it hurts and burns. Why?!
Question: When I bang my elbow on something metal, a burning sensation shoots up my arm, it hurts and burns. Why.?
Answers:
You hit your 'funny bone'.
Your funny bone is the nerve that runs next to your elbow, and if you feel around, you will feel a little gap like there is nothing there. When you hit that, you hit your nerve. The nerve triggers pain in your arm and it shoots all over for a couple of seconds.
Funny bones are definitely not funny.Health Question & Answer
Your funny bone is the nerve that runs next to your elbow, and if you feel around, you will feel a little gap like there is nothing there. When you hit that, you hit your nerve. The nerve triggers pain in your arm and it shoots all over for a couple of seconds.
Funny bones are definitely not funny.Health Question & Answer
Because you have a nerve under your elbow. It is the Ulnar nerve. It comes down the inside of your arm then swings down under your elbow and the back to the side of your arm. It controls the outside part of the palm, pinkie, and the outer part of the ring finger. I had surgery this past winter because the nerve actually became trapped in the bone and caused those pains you are describing every time I straightened my arm out all the way and my palm, pinkie, and ring finger were numb. The surgeon made an 8 inch incision on the inside of my arm and lifted the nerve out from under my elbow and stitched it to the inside of my arm. I just recently banged my elbow on something hard and had no burning pain at all because the nerve isn't there anymore. Now I get that pain if I hit the inside of my arm.Health Question & Answer