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Top of right arm feels like a pulled muscle and like a dead arm and get tingling in fingers. is this a pulled muscle or something else?

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Dr. Bradley Frazee answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Nerve compression: The dead arm and tingly fingers is from compressing a nerve in the brachial plexus in your arm pit area. This can happen simply by sleeping with your arm over your head.

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Answered 6/23/2018

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