What is paresthesia? Paresthesia is a term referring to a burning or prickling sensation that people may experience within their legs, arms, hands or feet. It may also occur in other parts of their body. The sensation, sometimes, occurs without warning and is a mostly painless sensation. It’s best described by its tingling, numbness and … Read more
Plenty of people experience lower back pain. Though, one of the most common causes of lower back pain originates from injuries to the sacroiliac joint (SI joint) and its associated ligaments. About sacroiliac joint dysfunction Sacroiliac joint dysfunction typically occurs when the sacroiliac joint becomes inflamed or damaged. To understand how an inflamed sacroiliac joint … Read more
The sural nerve runs down through the center of the calf muscle and is one of five nerves that provide sensation to the foot. It travels down the back of the leg, over the Achilles tendon, and then along the outside of the foot to the end of the little toe. Comparatively, it is a … Read more
Although medical terms that might confuse many people, cervical spondylosis and radiculopathy have a common link with one another. Understanding one (cervical spondylosis) is needed to understand how the other (radiculopathy) works within contexts involving the former. That’s mainly because cervical spondylosis often plays a role in causing radiculopathy in people. In this article, let’s … Read more
What is it? Prostatitis is any inflammation or irritation of the prostate gland. There are two main types of prostatitis, bacterial prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome or CPPS. Bacterial prostatitis is caused by a bacterial infection, while the cause of CPPS can be a mystery. It is, in fact, common for the cause of … Read more
Multiple Sclerosis is a progressive autoimmune disease. A suffers immune system thinks that its soft tissue, the myelin sheath is a virus and attacks it. The destruction cause open areas known as lesions to form on the nerve endings and nerve roots. This makes it difficult for the body to send and receive messages to … Read more
Many people feel some type of joint pain in their lifetime but for some this is more common than for others. The pain is difficult and causes hardship in maintain your life and your livelihood and causes massive amount of pain. Joint pain can affect men and women of any age and any from any … Read more
Opioids are highly addictive, very strong painkilling medications such as Oxycodone or Morphine that are usually prescribed by doctors. Some opiates are illegal and not prescribed by doctors though, such as Heroin. This class of drugs works by imitating chemicals naturally made in the brain. They affect multiple systems in the body when ingested, resulting … Read more
Chronic pain is pain that has outlived its usefulness as a sensation. Pain is meant to alert an individual to trauma or injury in a part of the body. Chronic pain has either lasted much too long to be useful as an alert, or there is no underlying condition to be found, and the cause … Read more
Fibromyalgia is a disorder whose exact cause is unknown. Although things like specific infections, diseases, genetics, hormonal imbalances and PTSD seem to play a large part, in this disease. This disease causes numerous symptoms. Strangely, not all suffers experience all of the same symptoms. This is thought to be the result of the disorder imitating … Read more