Many of us have felt a muscle in some part of our body suddenly and involuntarily tighten, causing a twitch or even severe cramp. Muscle spasms are common and typically don’t signal a severe health ...

Dr. Lacy Anderson explains that pain radiating from the back or neck down the arm is often caused by a pinched or irritated ...

If you have upper motor neuron lesions, you have damage to certain nerve cells that help you move. Medicines and therapy can help control symptoms like muscle spasms and help you walk and talk more ...

When sciatica first strikes, cold packs are a self-care strategy that can help numb the area and get you through the worst of ...

You’re fast asleep when a sudden, knife-like pain in your leg jars you out of dreamland. It’s a charley horse – sharp, relentless, and completely unexpected. But why do night cramps strike in the dead ...

Lower right back pain can come from issues with muscles, discs, joints, or internal organs. Numbness, tingling, or weakness with lower right back pain is often a sign of nerve involvement. Using ice ...

A viewer wants to know more about sciatica, or sciatic nerve pain. Doctor Lacy Anderson has suggestions for treatment. Sciatica is a very common condition that causes pain that shoots down one or both ...

Tiger Woods had another surgery on his lower back — his sixth in the past 10 years — on Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he experienced this year. In a brief statement ...

Blepharospasm describes a condition where a person experiences an involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the eyelid. “Blepharo” refers to the eyelids, while “spasm” describes twitching of the ...