My Hand Shakes After Using Power Tools – What Does This Mean?

My Hand Shakes After Using Power Tools – What Does This Mean?

My Hand Shakes After Using Power Tools – What Does This Mean?

What Does it Mean if your Hand Shakes After Using Power Tools?

Do you often experience shakes in your hand and/or arms after using power tools?

If you do, you might be suffering from hand arm vibration syndrome or vibration white finger, both irreversible conditions that are most commonly caused by the use of power tools like powered sanders, grinders, jackhammers and pneumatic drills.

Symptoms of Conditions Caused by Using Power Tools

The main conditions caused by using powerful vibratory tools are:

  • Hand arm vibration syndrome, and
  • Vibration white finger.

These are painful and debilitating disorders that have many symptoms, including shaky hands.

Other than hand shakes, hand arm vibration symptoms and vibration white finger symptoms include:

  • Swollen, throbbing fingers
  • Numbness in fingers, hands and arms
  • Tingling feeling in fingers and fingertips
  • A loss of strength and dexterity
  • Fingers going white

If you are suffering from any of these symptoms after using power tools at work in the last 3 years, you are likely owed compensation.

Claim Compensation for Vibration Injuries

Are you experiencing shaking in your hand after regularly working with power tools? Then get in touch. We will help you assess if you can claim compensation.

Health Conditions Caused by Using Power Tools

Power tools are pretty much what they say on the tin – powerful. They also emit vibration, which can lead to permanent health conditions that can affect people significantly for the rest of their lives.

If you have shakes in your hand after using hand held power tools and notice these other symptoms too, you could be suffering from hand arm vibration syndrome.

As well as hand arm vibration syndrome, using power tools can cause a condition called vibration white finger syndrome. This health issue is very closely linked to hand arm vibration syndrome, and shares a lot of its symptoms. However, vibration white finger primarily affects the fingers and hands, and not the arms so much.

One of the main symptoms of vibration white finger is, as the name suggests, whiteness of “blanching” of a person’s fingers. The blanching may start slowly in the fingertips and gradually develop to affect the rest of the fingers the worse the condition gets.

Whiteness in the fingers is often accompanied with numbness and/or pain, and develops due to a loss of blood flow into the fingers due to excessive vibration.

Are you suffering from any of the symptoms above after working with vibratory tools at work? If so, we could help you get compensated.

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This post was last modified on Tháng mười một 26, 2024 5:38 chiều