Though eyelid twitching (technically called myokymia) can feel disconcerting, the good news is that it’s typically fleeting and harmless. Nevertheless, when you’re in the throes of the mini muscle ...

Does your eye twitch frequently, or do you experience frequent headaches? It may be your body’s way of telling you that you’re low on magnesium.

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Though many people experience muscle twitching, it's often incorrectly identified as a muscle spasm. While both are involuntary contractions of a muscle, muscle spasms and muscle twitching aren't ...

Blepharospasm describes a condition where a person experiences an involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the eyelid. “Blepharo” refers to the eyelids, while “spasm” describes twitching of the ...

An irritating eyelid flutter might be more than just stress. Dr Saurabh Sethi, a Harvard-trained gastroenterologist, explains that persistent eye twitching can indicate a need for attention. While ...

There’s nothing quite as distracting as a sudden eye flutter while you’re trying to work, it’s the universal sign that you’re ...

We've all been there before. Running along the basketball court or swimming across the pool, when, all of a sudden, we experience a sharp pain in our foot or leg. Muscle cramps are common, affect ...

Doctors identify these movements as 'fasciculations', because they occur when individual nerve fibers, which control small muscle groups activate independently to produce brief muscle contractions.