Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a rare pain syndrome caused by compression of your glossopharyngeal nerve. It leads to episodes of severe pain, usually on one side of the back of your throat and nose.

If you follow health and wellbeing news, it’s likely you’ll be hearing a lot more about the vagus nerve over the coming year.

In some cases, a pinched nerve in the upper back can cause chest pain. However, upper back pinched nerves are less common than those that occur in the neck or lower back. Pinched nerves can cause pain ...

There is a good chance you know someone with a central sensitization syndrome. Someone with chronic migraines for years? Someone with chronic back pain for years? Someone with chronic digestive ...

One bright April day in 1903, Dr. Henry Head of Cambridge University, England went to a surgeon friend and asked him to make a six-and-a-half-inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, ...

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Pinch yourself. If you feel pain, it's thanks to specialized nerve endings in the skin. And, in a surprising discovery, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine demonstrated that ...