Often, a pinched nerve causes increased tension in the muscles surrounding the nerves, so we want to offload the tension by activating our scapular muscles as both your neck muscles and scapular ...

“When you talk about a pinched nerve in the neck, that’s usually going to bring on symptoms in the neck and sometimes the shoulder blade and then down the arm into the hand. In the low ...

A pinched nerve happens when surrounding tissues like bones, cartilage, muscles, or tendons exert too much pressure on a nerve. This pressure can disrupt the nerve’s function, leading to symptoms like ...

However, it is a sign of a pinched spinal nerve. If you have intense itching, burning, or tingling along your shoulder blade — an itch just beyond where you can comfortably ... or the skin turning ...

Various diseases can be treated by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrical signals. However, this technique does not always work. A study has now shown: The electrical signals must ...

While the discomfort can be due to a knee condition, it can also be the result of a disc protrusion or a pinched nerve in your ... much of the disc is pressing on the nerve. The nerves that send ...

Implantable vagus nerve stimulation devices have long been used to treat epilepsy, depression and stroke. A new crop of buzzy non-invasive VNS gadgets, like the one shown here from Truvaga ...

The vagus nerve, the longest nerve in the body, originates in the brainstem and extends down into the abdomen. It monitors and receives information about the functioning of the heart, lungs ...