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What Causes Involuntary Movements In Hands?

Hello, I am a student nurse that works in a clinic, and I have started to notice that while I try to hold the thermometer in a patients mouth that my hand steadily shakes. Plus, sometimes when I'm holding a pen trying to write it can get very shaky. Almost like the muscles are having spasms. When I pull my hand up like I'm waving and hold it, it will also shake like it's experiencing muscle spasms. It's only my right hand. I have recently been experiencing numbness from my right shoulder to my finger tips. One night it felt so weird that I guess instinctively I kept holding my arm straight up in the air because it seemed to help it from feeling as weird. Is this anything to worry about?
posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2014
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