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( Spasm)
A spasm is a sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ, or a similarly sudden contraction of an orifice. It is sometimes accompanied by a sudden burst of pain, but is usually harmless and ceases after a few minutes. Spasmodic muscle contraction may also be due to a large number of medical conditions, including the dystonias. By extension, a spasm is a temporary burst of energy, activity, emotion, stress, or anxiety. A subtype of spasms is colic, an episodic pain due to spasms of smooth muscle in a particular organ (e.g. the bile duct). A characteristic of colic is the sensation of having to move about, and the pain may induce nausea or vomiting if severe. Series of spasms or permanent spasms are called a spasmism. In very severe cases, the spasm can induce muscular contractions that are more forceful than the sufferer could generate under normal circumstances. This can lead to torn tendons and ligaments.
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Bergamot Essential Oil by Trevor Lee
Bergamot, botanically known as Citrus bergamia, normally is of Gold with a Green Hint color. Commonly extracted as Cold Pressed (best) or Steam Distilled, its Consistency is thin and it is top on the perfumery note. Bergamot aromatically described as...
How Back Pain Muscle Spasms Are Treated by Muna wa Wanjiru
Back Pain Muscle Spasms are no fun. Back Pain is common cause of worry for many people. But it may be occurring because of any type injury to the back. In case of such injury the body mechanism attempts to protect the back from injury. T...
Top 7 Tips To Relieve Back Pain by Raymond Lee
You bent down, picked up the laundry basket, straightened up, and yeeow! Pain cuts through your back like a sword. What happened? You have lifted heavier loads than this hundreds of times before. It does not matter. Back pain will seize any opportuni...
Crowing About Toothache by malo alvarez
When you take care of the natural teeth in your mouth, there will be no toothache to crow about. Toothache refers to the pain caused by tooth or jaw problems such as dental cavity, a cracked tooth, an exposed tooth root, gum disease, disease of the...
Is Society Embracing Self-Destruction? by aseya me
You don't have to be suicidal or depressed to be a threat to yourself. Sometimes, as performance anxiety or status anxiety pushes us to do more and be more, we lead ourselves down a dangerous path. Athletes, in particular, are always eager to push th...
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