
Lymphadenopathy: When Lymph Nodes Swell Overnight
If there's anything that is comforting to know about a lump that appears suddenly (in a day or two, or faster) under your chin, or on the side of your...

Scheuermann's Disease aka Kyphosis: What You Need To Know If Your Child Was Just Diagnosed
What Is Scheuermann's Kyphosis? The thoracic spine — the middle and upper back — typically has a curvature of 20 to 40 degrees. People who have more severely curved middle and upper...

What Can You Do to Prevent Passing Out (Syncope) When You Have to Stand Still?
Passing out while standing at attention, posing for a photo, participating in a wedding part, or giving a speech is an often-embarrassing but hardly unusual event. Fainting, swooning, and, in...

Tarlov (Perineural) Cysts and How to Get Insurance to Pay for Treatment
Tarlov's disease is a surprisingly common condition that most people have never heard about. Causing "perineural" (along the nerve) cysts in the sacral (at the base of the) spine, Tarlov...

Ulnar Neuropathy: What It Is and What To Do About It?
Do you have a strange sensation when you bend your pinkie finger? Are your fourth and third fingers also sometimes involved? Do your hands get numb when you rest on...

Abdominal Sprains, Strains, and Hernias
Muscle strains (an injury to the muscle itself or to the ligament connected to the muscle) and sprains (an injury to the connective tissues attached to a muscle) can occur...

What to Expect After Surgery to the Cervical Spine
Every year hundreds of thousands of people have surgical spinal fusion (arthrodesis) to correct spinal stenosis, the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, herniated disks, or spondylitis, or to keep the bones in...

Shoulder Replacement Surgery: What to Expect
There are three main types of shoulder replacement surgery: total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA), reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA), and hemiarthroplasty (HA). The different kinds of should replacement resolve in different ways. The single most...

Rheumatoid Arthritis - An Autoimmune Condition Affecting Joints
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorder that is caused by the immune system producing antibody proteins that attack the synovium that lines the joints. This disease can also affect...

Corticosteroid Medications - The Good And The Bad
Corticosteroids are medications used to reduce inflammation in affected areas of the body. Their function is to reduce redness, itching, swelling and reactions caused by allergies. Corticosteroids are used to help...