Question: I am often woken during the middle of the night with a pain in my foot. It is not in my toes, but the bone that goes from my big toe – the first metatarsal. It isn’t connected with activity ...
A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. These nerves send signals for things like ...
Often a person won’t have any symptoms to signal a defect in the IVC. Symptoms, when they do occur, can include vague low back or abdominal pain. The primary function of the IVC is to carry ...