The revelation that Canadian singer Céline Dion had been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome (SPS) placed this rare ...

Winter doesn’t have to mean enduring back pain By staying active using heat therapy and making adjustments to posture and ...

That doesn’t mean head out on another huge hike or hit the gym (because, ouch) but make sure that the muscles are getting blood flow to avoid further stiffening up. “You could try a gentle ...

A 52-year-old woman presented with episodic stiffening of her back and thighs every 3 months ... Physical examination revealed severe lumbar lordosis and muscle stiffness in her lower limbs, ...

"Clonus" (KLOH-nus) means fast stiffening and relaxaing of a muscle that happens repeatedly. In other words, it is repeated jerking. The movements cannot be stopped by restraining or repositioning the ...

Winter's chill intensifies joint pain due to stiffening muscles, pressure changes, and reduced activity. Symptoms include ...

due to muscle stiffening. “We saw the molecule stimulate reparative macrophages – a type of white blood cell – within the diabetic heart,” said the lead author of the study, MIPS PhD ...

Yale Medicine writes that prominent SPS symptoms include muscle stiffening and painful muscle spasms that can be provoked by emotional stress or, again, outside stimuli. These spasms can be “so ...

the behavior resembles human muscles instinctively stiffening or relaxing in response to varying surfaces. “It’s no different with living creatures,” he says. “If we can’t bend our knees ...

Histopathologically, it is also associated with microvascular changes, with smooth muscle hypertrophy, and intimal fibrosis, which cause stiffening, reduced compliance and increased resistance, ...