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There is a frustrating pattern that plays out for many patients with small fiber neuropathy: burning pain in the feet, strange sensations in the hands, disrupted sleep, and after a complete neurological workup, including an EMG, every result comes back normal. For a long time, that was where the story ended. The condition went unlabeled,…

Neurologists describe cluster headaches as one of the most severe pain conditions in all of medicine, and patients who have experienced them rarely need convincing. The attacks arrive abruptly, reach peak intensity within minutes, and produce a level of pain that has earned the condition the informal label “suicide headache.” What defines the condition beyond…

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…