Pain

Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in term...

Muscle Cramps

Muscle strength

Management of muscle spasm

Respiratory muscle weakness

UPDATE 1-FDA warns of burns from muscle and joint pain busters

Sept 13 (Reuters) - Over-the-counter muscle and joint pain relievers may cause chemical burns in rare cases, U.S. health regulators warned on Thursday.

FDA warns of burns from muscle and joint pain busters

(Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator alerted patients to rare cases of chemical burns from using over-the-counter muscle and joint pain relievers, including creams, lotions, ointments, and patches....

CORRECTED-FDA warns of burns from muscle and joint pain busters

Sept 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator alerted patients to rare cases of chemical burns from using over-the-counter muscle and joint pain relievers, including creams, lotions, ointments and pat...

STOMP: Atorvastatin Doesn't Reduce Muscle Strength

Many physicians and patients have complained that statins can cause muscle pain, but the effect of statins on muscle performance has not been rigorously tested. The STOMP trial examined the impact of...

Topical Pain Relievers May Cause Burns

FDA warns that some consumers have reported receiving mild to severe chemical burns while using certain over-the-counter pain relievers applied to the skin to relieve muscle and join pain.

BioPhotas Celluma light therapy device wins FDA nod

BioPhotas has gained the US marketing rights for its light therapy device, designed to treat acne, muscle and joint pain, muscle and joint stiffness, muscle spasm, arthritis and compromised local bloo...

Despite a New "Supportive Relationship", Courts Often Won't Sever Alimony Ties, Forcing Ex-Spouses to Keep Paying Forever

TAVARAS, Fla., Jan. 15, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following a divorce, the court bases alimony on the circumstances of the spouses at the time they go their separate ways. However, it is not unusual f...

Stents to Treat Coronary Artery Blockages

The coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscle. Cholesterol and calcium can deposit plaques on the walls of these vessels, reducing the amount of blood that can flow through them. This is know...

Sever's injury; treat it with a heel cup: a randomized, crossover study with two insole alternatives.

Sever's injury (apophysitis calcanei) is considered to be the dominant cause of heel pain among children. Common advice is to reduce physical activity. However, our previous study showed that applicat...

Infantile colic: Is a pain syndrome.

The hypothesis states that infantile colic is a pain syndrome and the excessive crying leads to aerophagia and abdominal discomfort. The pain comes from sucking the bottle or the nipple. Feeding for t...

Asymmetric posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in patient with hyperplastic anterior choroidal artery.

We describe a case of asymmetric PRES due to the presence of hyperplastic anterior choroidal artery (AChA) in a man affected by sever hypertension. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES)...

Acute effects of dietary ginger on muscle pain induced by eccentric exercise.

Zingiber officinale, commonly known as ginger, has analgesic and antiinflammatory properties. The acute effects of ginger on muscle pain, inflammation and dysfunction induced by eccentric exercise wer...

New insight into motor adaptation to pain revealed by a combination of modelling and empirical approaches.

BACKGROUND: Movement changes in pain. Unlike the somewhat stereotypical response of limb muscles to pain, trunk muscle responses are highly variable when challenged by pain in that region. This has le...