Your doctor says your arm pain is due to tennis elbow, but you’ve never even swung a racket. It doesn’t matter. If you’ve turned a...
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Sprained Knee: Symptoms and Treatment
Ever twisted your leg the wrong way and felt that awful jolt of pain in your knee? If so, you might have had a knee...
Why Does My Jaw Hurt?
Dentists frequently are asked this question by patients, many of whom instantly assume that they have a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder. But many important anatomical...
What’s Causing Your Hand Pain?
Hand pain can make it difficult, if not impossible, to turn the key in your front door, twist off the gas cap before filling up...
Ingrown Toenail Care
Experiencing pain and redness at a corner of your big toe? It could be an infected ingrown toenail. There are options for ingrown toenail self-care,...
Plantar Fasciitis Symptoms and Treatment Options
Our feet give us a solid place to stand, and take us where we want to go—tasks that demand the coordination of 26 bones and...
What Is Bursitis?
Osteoarthritis causes issues for many older adults, as does another common problem: bursitis. But what is bursitis? While osteoarthritis is a wear and tear of...
Back of Head Headaches
“My head hurts” is a common complaint, but it is worth being a bit more precise. While some headaches are “generalized”—that is, felt throughout the...
Metformin: Newest Drug for Arthritis Pain?
Rheumatoid arthritis treatment includes disease-modifying arthritis medications, but osteoarthritis, which is more common and involves wear and tear on joints, has no drug that slows...
When to Worry About Leg Pain
Leg pain when walking may result from a variety of causes, such as natural age-related changes in your knees, ankles or other structures in your...
5 Tips for Managing Arthritis
Living with osteoarthritis isn’t easy—sometimes even simple tasks around the house can become challenging. But there are things you can do at home to ease...
What to Do About an Ingrown Fingernail
Ingrown nails most commonly affect the toes—in particular, the big toe—but it is possible to develop an ingrown fingernail. Bottom Line Personal asked dermatological surgeon...
