Cardiovascular disease is a group of conditions that affect your heart and blood vessels. It's sometimes also called heart disease. Conditions that affect your heart and blood vessels can include ...

When the facial nerve malfunctions or is damaged, it can trigger involuntary facial twitches associated with hemifacial spasms. For example, if a blood vessel presses against the seventh nerve, this ...

Charley horse is another name for a muscle spasm or muscle cramp. It’s marked by involuntary, uncomfortable, and sometimes painful muscle contractions that may last a few minutes. A charley ...

Eyelid twitching that occurs unrelated to a disorder or disease is called myokymia. It is defined by muscle spasms that make your eyelid quickly close or almost close continually and reopen. This type ...

Carrie Jean Robinette, 46, of San Diego, has always had a lot of health issues, but she didn’t think she had a serious problem until muscle spasms overtook her body when she was traveling in 2023.

Fibroadipose vascular anomaly is a very rare vascular malformation with symptoms that appear most frequently in children and young adults. FAVA causes painful, fibrous tissue and immature blood ...