“When the person bends their neck, there's mechanical irritation to the damaged nerve fibers, which can cause what feels like an electric shock.” People with MS may also experience muscle spasms, tremors and stiffness.
Neck and back pain: Some people with MS can experience neck and back pain. This may be due to immobility, or to the same type of wear and tear that many people without MS experience. This type of pain is often an aching, stiff sensation that can be moderately severe.
Back, neck and joint pain can be indirectly caused by MS, particularly for people who have problems walking or moving around that puts pressure on their lower back or hips.
You might feel spasticity either as stiffness that doesn't go away or as movements you can't control that come and go, especially at night. It can feel like a muscle tightening, or it can be very painful. Spasticity also can make you ache or feel tight in and around your joints and low back.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can often lead to muscle or joint pain due to nerve damage, either as a direct cause or residual effect of MS. According to one study of 115 people with MS, the shoulders and upper back are commonly affected areas of pain in those with MS.
The most common causes of neck pain are: the neck becoming locked in an awkward position while sleeping. bad posture – for example, when sitting at a desk for a long time. a pinched nerve.
Neck stiffness is almost always a temporary symptom of overusing your neck or sleeping in an unusual position. But it can also be a symptom of meningitis, a dangerous infection that needs treatment right away.
MS can damage the nerves that affect your muscles. This can cause acute or paroxysmal pain in the form of spasms. Your arms and legs might shoot out uncontrollably and might have pain like cramping or pulling. Nerve pain can also be chronic in the form of painful or unusual sensations on your skin.
MRI scans of the cervical or lumbar spine — the neck and lower regions of the spinal cord, respectively — may be useful for detecting multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in those regions.
Numbness or Tingling
Numbness of the face, body, or extremities (arms and legs) is often the first symptom experienced by those eventually diagnosed as having MS.
Neurological examination
Your neurologist will look for abnormalities, changes or weakness in your vision, eye movements, hand or leg strength, balance and co-ordination, speech and reflexes. These may show whether your nerves are damaged in a way that might suggest MS.
Early MS symptoms may include blurred vision, numbness, dizziness, muscle weakness, and coordination issues. MS is progressive and can worsen over time. Eventually, the disease can do damage directly to the nerves, causing permanent disability.
Muscle stiffness and spasms are common MS symptoms, and are often described as 'MS spasticity'. Muscle spasms or stiffness can affect between 40% and 80% of people with MS at some time. For most people, these are occasional symptoms.
Physiotherapy. Your health team might recommend: Range of motion exercises – exercises designed to help you keep maximum movement in a joint may reduce muscle stiffness and prevent stiff joints from lack of use. Stretching - stretching muscles can also help prevent long-term complications.
People should consider the diagnosis of MS if they have one or more of these symptoms: vision loss in one or both eyes. acute paralysis in the legs or along one side of the body. acute numbness and tingling in a limb.
A soft collar to limit neck flexion may be prescribed. These sensations, called dysesthesias, are all neurologic in origin. These pains are sometimes treated with gabapentin (Neurontin®) or with antidepressants such as amitriptyline (Elavil®) because such agents modify how the central nervous system reacts to pain.
Cervical radiculopathy (also known as “pinched nerve”) is a condition that results in neurological dysfunction caused by compression and inflammation of any of the nerve roots of your cervical spine (neck). Neurological dysfunction can include radiating pain, muscle weakness and/or numbness.
McArdle sign is related to a diagnosis of MS; however, this sign has been described only twice previously. When defined as a reduction in neck strength >10% with neck flexion, McArdle sign is 100% specific for MS and has 65% sensitivity for a diagnosis of MS.
We have seen people with different ailments such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, over/underactive thyroid and cardiovascular disease — all of which are systemic diseases that enhance the risk of people suffering from a frozen shoulder.
Tingling of the shoulder, neck up to the face can occur for many reasons. This can occur with multiple sclerosis; however, it can also occur with irritation of nerves in the neck due to “a pinched nerve in the neck” either from arthritis or a disc problem in the neck.
Symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis
The symptoms of AS vary from person to person. The most common symptoms are: pain and stiffness in the back, buttocks or neck, especially in the morning. The symptoms are often worse after rest and relieved by exercise.