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One morning, you wake up with unusual back pain. By afternoon, your legs feel heavy. By evening, you can’t urinate normally, and a band of numbness is spreading up your torso. This is not a pulled muscle or a pinched nerve. This is a neurological emergency – and for patients with transverse myelitis, this compressed…

Most pain follows a predictable arc: injury happens, healing occurs, pain subsides. Complex regional pain syndrome breaks that arc entirely. The injury heals, or at least appears to, but the pain doesn’t leave. It intensifies and spreads. A wrist fracture from months ago now produces burning so severe that a shirt sleeve touching the skin…

Imagine being at a work meeting and suddenly bursting into tears, not because you’re sad, but because your brain has lost the ability to regulate the physical expression of emotion. Or laughing uncontrollably at a funeral, fully aware that the reaction doesn’t match what you actually feel inside. For people with pseudobulbar affect, this is…

A sudden jerk of the leg just before falling asleep. An arm that shoots upward without warning while reaching for a coffee cup. A shoulder that twitches unexpectedly, causing embarrassment in a meeting. Most people experience something like this at least once – and most of the time, it means nothing serious. But when myoclonic…