Lingual-pharyngeal neuralgia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Lingual-pharyngeal ne uralgia is a sudden, very strong pain in the throat, tongue, ear or tonsils that lasts a few seconds or minutes. This problem affects both men and women, and can also occur in...
Sciatica attack - causes and symptoms
Sciatica is nothing more than an attack of the nerve roots. It is a very severe pain that indicates that the spine needs treatment. This pain usually does not go away after taking even strong...
Headaches during sex - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Primary headaches associated with sexual activity are known professionally as coital headaches. They have been described since ancient times. They occur during sexual activity (before or during...
Bechterew's disease - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Bechterew's disease is ankylosing spondylitis. It affects men more often than women and usually appears between the ages of 16 and 30. It can occur in children and the elderly. The cause of the...
Bechterew's disease - description, causes, origin
Bechterev's disease is ankylosing spondylitis. It is one of the most common arthritis-related conditions. It affects men more often than women and can also occur in children and the elderly. It...
Phantom pains
We define phantom pain as that which is felt at the site of an amputated body part, (e.g. a lower or upper limb) but also that pain which occurs suddenly at a site that has not been mechanically...
Various symptoms of back pain
Most people with back problems experience back pain (cervical, thoracic, lumbar or sacral) and neck pain. Sometimes, however, patients experience dizziness and headaches, numbness in the upper limbs,...
Dizziness - emergency care, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
The basic criteria for the diagnosis of dizziness is an approximately 5-second latency period before the attack. Patients then experience nystagmus. This symptom precedes the onset of dizziness.
Primary exertional headache - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Primary exertional headache occurs during or after physical activity. It is most commonly triggered by: weight lifting, swimming, running, rowing, playing tennis (sometimes only one specific type...
Sleep headache - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
A mid-sleep headache, also known as an alarm clock headache, usually manifests itself after the age of 50. The average age of onset is 63 years. It affects women twice as often as men.
Tension-type headache - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Tension-type headache (TTH, or tension-type headache) is very common. It is estimated to occur in 30-78% of people during their lifetime. It is slightly more common in women. It first appears after...
Carpal tunnel syndrome - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Carpal tunnel syndrome (syndroma canaris carpitalis) is one of the most common causes of hand pain. More than 90 % is caused by non-specific inflammation of the finger flexor tendons.
Painful shoulder syndrome - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Painful shoulder syndrome occurs with similar frequency in both men and women. In terms of prevalence of musculoskeletal pain, it is third most common after sacroiliac pain and knee pain. It is...
Multiple sclerosis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Multiple sclerosis (sclerosis multiplex S) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the nervous system with primary damage to the myelin sheath in the central nervous system. The most common form is...
What are neuralgia?
Neuroma (neuralgia) is defined as pain radiating within the innervation field of a particular nerve or its branches.
Pain management methods
In Poland, as many as 27% of adults complain of various forms of pain. Most often we suffer from migraines, pain in the neck, shoulders, back and joints.
Cluster headache, Horton's headache - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
A cluster headache is defined as a primary headache, self-limited, chronic, which is usually characterised by a unilateral location. In most cases, the pain attack is located in the frontal or...
Spina bifida - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Spina bifida (meningomyelia, meningomyelocele) occurs during the fetal period and is classified as a malformation of the spine. It is a disorder that arises during puberty and the proper formation of...
Spinal column defects in children
Today's lifestyle, lack of physical activity and sitting in front of the computer and television promote spinal defects from an early age.
Headache - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Tension headaches A tension headache is defined as a spontaneously occurring bilateral pain with the presence of variable accompanying symptoms. Its cause is not fully understood, although it is...
