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Can Rib Cramps and Pain Come from the Spine?

Pain in the rib cage can range from mild tenderness to severe cramps or a burning sensation. Sometimes rib pain stems from a problem in the spine, even if the pain is felt more toward the chest or abdomen. Here are some potential causes of rib pain that may stem from the mid-spine, also called the thoracic spine. See Thoracic Spine Anatomy and Upper Back Pain Fractured or displaced rib A traumatic injury, such as from

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What Is Foot Drop?

Foot drop is a feeling of weakness while attempting to lift the foot and/or toes upward (dorsiflexion).1 Foot drop typically causes the individual to involuntarily drag the toes of the affected foot while attempting to walk.2 To compensate for this dragging, a high steppage or slapping gait1 is attempted, where the leg is lifted higher than normal on the affected side for the toes to clear the surface.3 Foot drop usually occurs when there is a problem with

Foot Pain Symptoms

While there may be many causes of foot pain, it is important to note that not all foot pain originates in the toes or in the front or back of the foot, nor does it necessarily develop because of some injury or trauma to the foot. What may come as a surprise is that many types of pain in the foot may have nothing to do with the foot or the leg, but rather a

Causes of Leg Pain and Foot Pain

Many conditions can cause leg pain and foot pain. Commonly, the main cause of the symptoms has its origin in the lower back, which is where the nerves branch out from the spine to provide function to the muscles in the leg, ankle, and foot. Low back conditions that are common causes of leg pain and/or foot pain—and associated neurological symptoms such as numbness or foot drop—are outlined below. See Leg Pain and Numbness: What Might

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Pain and Thoracic Herniated Disc Video

Watch the video Video Transcript Herniated disc in the thoracic spine is pretty uncommon and the reason for that is because there are a lot of supporting structures in the thoracic spine, unlike the cervical and lumbar spine. There is a lot more motion in the cervical spine as well as the lumbar spine. That motion is limited in the thoracic spine because of the rib cage. The rib cage is there to protect our internal organs,

Treatment for Lumbar Herniated Disc Video

Watch the video Video Transcript The first answer for how you treat a lumbar herniated disc is that you don't. A number of people will have disc herniations and not have any symptoms from those herniations, so just because you see a disc herniation doesn't mean it's necessarily symptomatic. You have to put the MRI findings in the proper context and that context is in the presentation of the entire person. The goal of treating

Treatment for Cervical Herniated Disc Video

Watch the video Video Transcript Treating cervical herniated disc depends on whether or not that disc is symptomatic or not. So, not all herniated discs in the cervical spine and other parts of the spine necessarily are causing any symptoms - often they're not. Certainly cervical herniated discs - like other discs - can cause symptoms. When they do, the treatment is focused around reducing the inflammation and the swelling from around the disc and