Though many people experience muscle twitching, it's often incorrectly identified as a muscle spasm. While both are involuntary contractions of a muscle, muscle spasms and muscle twitching aren't ...

We've all been there before. Running along the basketball court or swimming across the pool, when, all of a sudden, we experience a sharp pain in our foot or leg. Muscle cramps are common, affect ...

DEAR DR. GOTT: Some time ago, I happened to pick up a copy of my local newspaper. As it turned out, it was most fortuitous, since there was a letter to you from a reader talking about "violent shakes ...

Type IIb fast-twitch myofibers, known for their rapid contraction speed, are plentiful in small mammals but have largely ...

Blepharospasm describes a condition where a person experiences an involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the eyelid. “Blepharo” refers to the eyelids, while “spasm” describes twitching of the ...

As the opioid crisis continues in America, more and more doctors are steering away from prescribing opioid medications as a treatment for pain. Since 1999, more than 932,000 people have died from a ...

FDA clearance for the latest Neural Sleeve offering comes more than three-and-a-half years after the company’s first FDA ...

Cionic, the pioneering company behind the first FDA-cleared wearable neurotech for mobility, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for its ...

You’re sitting at your computer when it starts — that annoying flutter in your eyelid that feels like a tiny butterfly trapped under your skin. Most of the time, eye twitching is harmless and goes ...

The key word here is influenced – not determined. Numerous twin studies have shown that while genetics can account for ...