One minute you’re engrossed in an activity. The next, your arm, hand, leg or foot is numb, tingling, burning or itching. This sensation, which many can relate to, is commonly called pins and needles.

I have numbness and painful pins and needles in my hands and am waiting to be seen by a consultant to check for carpal tunnel. But as it affects both hands, could it stem from a common neural point, i ...

A father of two who assumed a tingling sensation in his hands was just pins and needles woke up paralysed a few days later – and couldn’t even close his eyes for weeks. Luke Pickering, a mechanic from ...