Pain may arise from injury to our body cells. This is known as organic pain. More accurately it arises from the stimulation of nerve fibres as a result of injury to the body tissues. However, some organs of the body, such as the brain itself, are not supplied with pain nerves, and these organs can [...]

Q. What causes these erosions to take place in a healthy person? A. The basic cause is too much acid and pepsin in the gastric fluid. At all times, a continual battle is going on in the stomach. On one hand, glands in the walls are actively producing acid, which in turn allows production of [...]

As already noted briefly, sciatica can be experienced in a number of ways. Most typically it manifests itself as one or more of the following sensations, with some sufferers having more than one kind of sciatic pain or discomfort: A pain that sufferers describe as ‘aching’, ‘stinging’, or even ‘burning’, this either following a specific [...]