Buerger’s Disease and Raynaud’s Disease are two vascular disorders that affect peripheral body parts, primarily fingers and toes. A comparison of these two vascular disorders reveals the similarities and differences between them. Buerger’s Disease and Raynaud’s Disease Comparison: Physiology and Causes Buerger’s Disease or thromboangiitis obliterans occurs when the small to mid-sized peripheral arteries in ...
A crick is an uncomfortable stiffness and ache on one side of the neck that worsens when the head or arm moves. This discomfort can range from an aggravating nuisance to severe pain. When it strikes, we impulsively reach around to massage that spot behind our necks where the shoulder joins. That area can always ...
Of course you know what a heart attack is, but there’s another heart related event that you may be less familiar with – a condition called coronary arterial spasm. A person experiencing a coronary artery spasm can have many of the same symptoms as a person having a heart attack ‘” including chest pain, lightheadedness, ...
A muscle cramp or spasm is a muscle that has been constricted but the constriction doesn’t let up. You get them from exercising too hard or too fast, not warming up before exercising, or pulling a muscle trying to reach or pull too hard a number of times. Muscle spasms or cramps could also be ...
Controlling muscle activities throughout the body is one of the functions of the human nervous system. When parts of the spinal cord and the brain (the two major organs of the nervous system) concerned with muscle activity become diseased, the action of the muscles correspondingly become radically different. This same result occurs when nerve connections ...
Lower back pain will strike every adult at some point. For some, this pain is temporary and goes away, but for others this pain will linger and could affect them for years, and in some cases, forever. There are dozens of medications, medical treatments and alternative remedies that can be effective. Another remedy that is ...
Last week something scary happened. It wasn’t anything I had ever seen or heard of before and it really freaked me out. My manager was holding my two month old son while I filled out some papers for work and suddenly she yelled, “Oh my god! He needs to see a doctor!” I immediately turned ...
Coronary artery spasm, also known as variant angina and Prinzmetal’s angina, is a short-term and unexpected health condition where one of the coronary arteries narrows in size. The spasm stops or slows blood flow in the artery which stops oxygen enriched blood from entering into a certain part of heart. Coronary artery spasms occur due ...
Raynaud’s Syndrome, a condition suffered by nearly 10% of the population is more than a simple case of cold hands. Named after a young French doctor practicing in the 1850s, this syndrome can affect the fingers, toes, face, and ears. It is a dangerous condition that stems from an overactive sympathetic nervous response to cold. ...
