Rare is the person who has not experienced pain and misery from a kidney stone, eye scratch, childbirth, or other problem. But the eye healed, the stone was passed, and the baby born. In each case, pain flared up in response to a known cause. With treatment, or with the body's healing powers alone, the pain went away.
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Many patients are labeled with fibromyalgia simply because they have chronic soft tissue pain. But it is important, at least for the sake... Read more »
Last week my wife and I attended a town hall meeting in our county organized by three local disability family organizations. The Maryland... Read more »
This Friday, October 23, one of the segments on The Dr. Oz Show is scheduled to be on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. His... Read more »
In the aftermath of the terrible events in Japan, I have been thinking about a heart condition called "Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy." It is... Read more »
As the story was unfolding in Part One, I shared that my neurologist had referred me to a hand surgeon to be evaluated for treatment of... Read more »
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Patients who live with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), pain in the anterior, or front of the knee, find that it gets worse as they walk up or... Read more »
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Sometimes after trauma (even minor trauma) to human tissue, a chronic pain condition develops. Once called i>reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD),... Read more »
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In this study, researchers report how experts diagnose myofascial trigger point (MTrP) pain syndrome. Trigger points are hyperirritable spots within... Read more »
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When patients report back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, or other local sites of body pain, it's rare that they don't have pain in other parts of... Read more »
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
This syndrome is characterized by the acute onset of pain during torsional strain, tenderness over the affected joint, and relief of symptoms by... Read more »