Muscle and bone pain is a common reason for a visit to a physiatrist-rheumatologist. Clearly, mild and passing pain should not be catastrophised, but the complex interaction of muscle, bone and joint, and neurovascular structures still calls for an examination by a doctor, followed by diagnosis and treatment. See a doctor in these...

Low back pain has many causes, covering almost the whole of medical pathology, but in most cases it will respond well to conservative measures within a short time. These measures include short-term rest and moderate, or tolerable, activity. As for medicines, in these...

Many patients complain of pain and cramps in the trunk, or specifically in the chest, and after seeing a cardiologist and a gastroenterologist they eventually end up in my physiatry and rheumatology practice. What is important to understand is that our trunk is a meeting place...

Damage to an intervertebral disc is most often a natural process. The disc consists of a soft core and a ring-shaped fibrous outer layer. Disc herniation is divided into protrusion, extrusion and sequestration, and it can result from acute trauma or overuse syndrome. Many inflammatory, metabolic and congenital...

Inflammatory rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis and many others are forms of systemic inflammatory arthritis. Some of them show clear differences between the sexes. The most common is rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease not only...

Muscle cramps, also called spasms or crampi, are common and have many causes. Cramps occur during physical work, such as exercise, but also during hormonal changes, psychological tension and even rest – spontaneously, for no clear reason. In fact, cramps often...