Neuropathy is a disease that affects the nervous system. ?Neuro? means nerves and ?pathy? means disease. It affects the nerve pathways running between the central nervous system ? the brain and spinal cord ? and the peripheral nervous system ? motor and sensory neurons. The major symptoms are serious pain, stinging, lack of sensation and [...]
The cluster headache is a malady that affects just 69 out of 100,000 people in the population-much fewer than those who suffer from migraines, sinus headaches, or one of the many other types of headaches. This is probably why it was not really recognized by the medical community until the last 150 years or [...]
Problems with the neck, shoulder and arm are often called different things by patients: neuritis; bursitis; neuralgia; rheumatism; frozen shoulder; fibrositis; sprained, strained, or sore muscles; or ?poor circulation.? Some people may blame their shoulder (or other joint) problems on ?old age? even though their other shoulder, which doesn?t have any problems, is [...]
