Fashionable tight clothes can cause harm. They affect posture, blood flow, and nerves. Long-term wear leads to muscular tension, digestive issues, and ...

Modern obstetric advances have improved labor management with pain medication integration, yet gynecologic pain management ...

Abdominal pain represents a frequent presenting symptom in emergency departments, with up to 20% of patient visits involving abdominal and/or flank pain. Recently published studies indicate that ...

The vastus lateralis muscle helps straighten your knee and is important for walking and running. Injuries to the vastus lateralis can cause pain and make it hard to walk, but using ice and heat can ...

Diabetic neuropathy is the most common neuropathy in industrialized countries, and it is associated with a wide range of clinical manifestations. The vast majority of patients with clinical diabetic ...

Guillain-Barré Syndrome or GBS, is one of those conditions that can appear without warning and turn a person’s life upside down in a matter of days. It’s a rare neurological disorder in which the body ...

Abstract: Plantar cutaneous feedback plays an important role in stable and efficient gait, by modulating the activity of ankle dorsi- and plantar-flexor muscles. However, central and peripheral ...

Background: “Dropped head syndrome” caused by neck extensor weakness has been reported in a variety of neuromuscular disorders. Previously published reports include isolated cases with amyotrophic ...

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Background Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the commonest entrapment neuropathy. (1, 2) Sensitivity and specificity of ultrasound (US) to diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome has been reported to be as high ...