Muscle spasm, muscle cramp or Charlie horse?  What is the difference? Before discussing muscle spasms and fibromyalgia, here is a description of a few overlapping and synonymous terms: Muscle spasm – a sudden, painful, involuntary and prolonged contraction of a muscle or group of musc

Low back pain can be relieved, improved or eliminated by making a few personal changes and using simple procedures that are outlined in this list of 29 tactics. Lower back pain is such a common complaint that chances are you or someone in your family has frequent back pain.  Of those

Dr. Lumbago, I hope you can help me.  I have had pains all over my body for a long time, actually since around the time right after my 2nd child was born when I was 28 years old. People think I am making it up when I tell them how much I hurt all over, like it is something I say to ge

Stiff neck or torticollis Symptoms of stiff neck or wry neck stiffness Stiff neck, torticollis, or wry neck, or kink in the neck – it is all the same thing: a condition in which neck pain and muscle spasm is so intense that the stiffness makes it impossible to move the neck normally;

Is fibromyalgia real? I hurt all over – could this be fibromyalgia? You bet fibromyalgia is real, even though for many years the medical profession said it did not exist because it did not fit their standard definitions and ideas for how people experienced chronic pain and how to trea