Ever sit in a chair and feel twitching in your eye? Or maybe your calf muscle. You may suffer from benign fasciculation syndrome. Dr. Jerry Fleishman of Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center talks ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Involuntary muscle twitches are exceedingly common and yet not very ...

I am seeing a husband, 46 years old, and wife, 37 years old, as patients. The husband developed fasciculations in his upper and lower extremities 1 year ago. Because of associated neck and back pain, ...

Doctors identify these movements as 'fasciculations', because they occur when individual nerve fibers, which control small muscle groups activate independently to produce brief muscle contractions.

The clinical distinction between myopathic and neurogenic disorders of the motor unit is often difficult, since both lesions appear as flaccid, areflexic paralyses, often with variable muscular ...