Doctors warning over rise of agonising shoulder condition – victims left unable to raise their arms

Experts gave alarm on a little -known weakening shoulder in the midst of the increase in cases between young adults.

Thoracic output syndrome – is thought to have been crushed by the nerves or blood vessels between the neck and shoulder – a long -time recurrent arm action such as horticulture or tennis or a blunt trauma injury such as a trauma accident.

In elderly patients, this may cause swelling and inflammation due to excessive muscle use and slightly reduced the size of the thoracic outlet.

However, surgeons are now claiming that they have increasingly seen young patients from the middle of their twenties to the end of their twenties and apply with such symptoms.

The reason is a table -based office work that can see employees hunching on computer screens for hours.

Office -based workers working in motion using laptops and mobile phones can also cause pain of hands and shoulders as a result of working in the transition in congested or strange positions.

Patients under the age of 27, who were diagnosed with the situation, told Daily Mail that their bad stances were told as a result of table -based work. One could not raise his arms because of pain.

Sabine Donnai, the GP and founder of Vievi Vievi Vievi Vievi, said to Daily Mail: ‘Always being on laptops and mobile phones gives us a chronic forward -head stance that reduces the narrow space where the nerves going to the arms with round shoulders.

Two -thirds of people in the UK will suffer from shoulder pain at one point.

The most common causes are rotator cuff syndrome and frozen shoulder when the tissue around the joint is tightened, the muscles that stabilize the shoulder are inflamed.

However, thoracic output syndrome has long been flying under the radar for a long time considering its uncertain and various symptoms.

Likewise, there is no concrete diagnostic criterion between health professionals.

A study Posted last year In the annuals of the UK Royal Surgeons College, which evaluates cases of thoracic output syndrome for more than 17 years, he found that patients expect at least 18 months for a diagnosis.

Doctors from Medway NHS Foundation Trust, ‘Patient orientation in the hospital were generally taken from their fields of expertise such as neurologists, orthopedics and Ağrı experts.

While US hospitals have ‘open’ referral criteria, England There is no such system and of course it will benefit from the development of centers with open shipments, ” they added.

Research on the situation shows that although it is limited, it affects three people on average of 100,000.

However, other experts raised the number to three in 1,000.

The symptoms include numbness or tingling in the arms or fingers and pain or pain in the neck, shoulder, arm or hand.

Arm fatigue, a weak grip or swelling are among other common signs.

This is because the main blood vessels and nerves that provide the handle and hand – subclavia artery and vein and brachial plexus nerve bundle – pass through a small space between the first rib known as colbo and thoracic output.

Sometimes these blood vessels and nerves can be compressed, thoracic output syndrome.

Research shows that women are more vulnerable to this compression, as they tend to be smaller in anatomically in women.

Dr Donnai added that women with a sex hormone that affects collagen production and muscle elasticity as a result of women’s higher estrogen levels often suffer more than unstable joints.

Indeed, a British work published in Journal earlier this year Vascular Surgery AnnalsHe found that two -thirds of patients with thoracic outlet syndrome, who evaluated diagnosis throughout England for a year, were women.

Western Midlands vascular surgeons, ‘England vascular centers in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with thoracic output syndrome,’ ‘he said.

The 2024 survey published in Annals College of the Royal Surgeons of England found that 64 percent of patients were women and some were less than 27 years of age.

There are treatments, but no treatment.

In accordance with NHS guides, patients usually undergo physiotherapy in which stretching and strengthening exercises that reduce pressure on nerves and blood vessels are given.

Patients may also need drugs to treat pain, relax muscles, improve circulation and reduce the risk of blood clots.

If those who have serious problems such as blood clots and other treatments do not work, surgery may be recommended.

NHS guidance itself emphasizes the importance of maintaining a good stance by saying ‘sagging’.

However, there is no universal definition of an excellent stance.

Experts have for a long time humping on a table that humping will punish us for a lifetime of back, shoulder and neck pain.

Sitting straight is still considered to be a sacred bowl to help prevent pain, likewise the slope cracks its eyebrows.

It is supported by dotted posters around the offices, tells the workers to keep their backs straight and sit on the base of the punk chair.

The other guidance also tells employees to keep computer screens at the length of weapons and eye levels.

Some companies encourage even tables to their staff under the belief that they will alleviate any discomfort on their backs from the back of the fashionable gadgets.