This article outlines the basic anatomy of the foot bones, along with some of the most common conditions affecting these bones. The metatarsal bones are a group of five tubular bones in the middle ...

Some over-the-counter (OTC) topical creams, like lidocaine or capsaicin, may be helpful for nerve pain. Nerve pain is distinct from typical tissue pain. When you have tissue pain, like falling ...

As dawn approaches and the wrestling match winds down, the “man” can't defeat Yaakov but strikes his sciatic nerve—just as when the period of Jewish redemption dawns, the nations will be ...

It's a part of the larger structure called the lumbosacral plexus. The lumbar plexus is made up of branches of the first four lumbar nerve along with contributions from the subcostal nerve, which is ...

If something goes wrong with the greater petrosal nerve, it can lead to problems like dry eyes, a dry mouth, or cluster headaches. Nturibi E, Fakoya AO, Bordoni B. Anatomy, Head and Neck: Greater ...

According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term “brain rot” is defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

It can take a few weeks or longer for your neck to be less stiff. You may need to continue the exercises after you go home. The accessory nerve controls shoulder movement. If the surgeon removes it ...

You might have transoral surgery to remove an early stage laryngeal cancer. Or for some locally advanced laryngeal cancers. Your surgeon aims to remove all the cancer with this type of surgery. You ...

Objective: This study aims to summarize the clinical experience of using Hem-o-lok clips for the closure of the left subclavian artery (LSA) stump in patients with acute Stanford type A aortic ...

diff space,” Khan said, citing the approximately 175,000 patients reported to have recurrent C. diff in the United States and European Union, of which about 30,000 patients die each year.

A new study led by Luis Ulloa, PhD, and Wei Yang, PhD, reveals how electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve-;a major nerve connecting the brain and gut-;may combat the stress-related inflammation ...

Of all pregnancies, 10–25 percent of end in miscarriage, and one to five percent of women experience two or more pregnancy losses that don’t that don’t progress to term (recurrent pregnancy loss).