After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...

UFC legend Dominick Cruz knew it was time to call it quits when it became impossible to deal with a persistent shoulder ...

BACKGROUND Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) commonly presents with motor weakness and neurological symptoms and signs that include loss of tendon reflexes. However, patients with GBS also experience ...

Medically reviewed by Amy Kwan, PT Your latissimus dorsi (your "lats") is a broad, flat, triangle-shaped muscle that spans ...

The class is Tai Chi. Frauenknecht started learning the martial art because of numbness in his feet. “It centers me,” the 66-year-old said. I ...

Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow ...

Shoulder symptoms led to an average of 9.6 million physician visits in 2015 and 2016 in the United States. The most common ...

“When you talk about a pinched nerve in the neck, that’s usually going to bring on symptoms in the neck and sometimes the shoulder blade and then down the arm into the hand. In the low back, it’s ...

The axillary nerve is key to your shoulder's strength and stability. It powers the deltoid and teres minor muscles, which let you lift your arm away from your body and rotate it outward.

People who have trigeminal neuralgia (TN), which is also called tic douloureux, experience chronic pain in the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve. Symptoms of TN range from a constant ache to a ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites ...