We often think of our legs simply as the tools that get us from point A to point B. However, in the world of medicine, the ...

A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

Muscle twitches fall into two main types. There’s myoclonus, where a whole muscle or group of muscles twitch or spasm. Then ...

For the past five months, she had been tortured by pain boring into her back, an inch to the left of her spine. It was as if a drill were driving past her ribs to someplace deep inside, so specific, ...

Jennifer Steinhoff, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician specializing in sports medicine. She practices sports medicine and non-operative orthopedics in Wisconsin. Compression socks ...

If you've experienced pain in your calf, the Achilles tendon might have seemed like the culprit, but this odd muscle might ...

The blogger Trevis Gleason shares how multiple sclerosis has triggered sensory symptoms like the "wet spot" and "trickling" sensations. Learn how he adapts to and manages these unusual experiences.