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To do pelvic floor muscle exercises, imagine that you're trying to stop your urine flow. Then: Tighten (contract) the muscles you would use to stop urinating ...
Tetanus (also known as lockjaw) is a very serious illness that causes severe muscle spasms that make the muscles very rigid or stiff. The muscle spasms can be ...
In this condition, the muscles in the esophagus don't relax, preventing food and drink from moving into the stomach. Learn more about this rare digestive ...
The muscles also support the tongue, tonsils, side walls of the throat, and the tissue hanging from the soft palate, called the uvula. When the muscles relax, ...
Seek emergency medical care · Traumatic injury. Examples include car collisions, diving accidents or falls. · Muscle weakness. Weakness in an arm or leg or ...
... muscle contractions during a specific task. It's most likely related to overuse of a certain set of muscles, similar to writer's cramp. Anxiety worsens the ...
Stomach and back muscle exercises, also known as core-strengthening exercises, can help ease symptoms by making the muscles around the spine stronger.
Medicines. Injections of botulinum toxin (Botox, Dysport, others) into specific muscles might reduce or stop your muscle spasms. Injections usually are repeated ...
Without this cushion of cartilage, the joint becomes stiff and painful. Rotator cuff injuries. The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that help move ...
The Achilles tendon is the band of tissue that joins calf muscles at the back of the lower leg to the heel bone. Achilles tendinitis is sometimes called ...
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