Tingling. Burning. A numbness that won’t go away, even though nothing’s touching your skin. Sound familiar? You’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone. This is neuropathy in the feet and legs: the nerves that carry signals between your brain and your lower body have taken damage, and they’re not doing their job the way…
Almost everyone has experienced that dull, aching pressure across the forehead or around the back of the head after a long, demanding day. When asked what a tension headache is, the simplest definition is that it is the most common form of primary headache, affecting millions of adults across the United States. Unlike migraines or…
Big life changes stir up a strange mix of excitement and dread, sometimes both at once. Finishing school, moving to a new city, hunting for a job – all of it puts real strain on the nervous system, and the body doesn’t always process that gracefully. One of the most common physical results is a…
Summer by the water is supposed to feel carefree. Unfortunately, it’s also the season when neurologists see some of the worst spinal injuries of the year, most of them tied to a single bad dive. There’s a stubborn myth that serious injury only happens from high dives, but that’s not true. A dive into water…
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