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Involuntary twisting of neck
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Is torticollis the same as cervical dystonia/spasmodic torticollis? I have pain & spasms in neck and minor involuntary movemnt. Will it become worse?
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A 39-year old male asked:
I had a trauma to my neck in 2010 since then i've had muscle spasms and involuntary contractions in my left arm.
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A 22-year old female asked:
For 2 months I'm experiencing involuntary movements in neck, arms and legs. They appear when I'm tired and in a bad posture. What can this mean?
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A 36-year old female asked:
My son is 3 years, 5 months. He has recently started having occasional episodes where he inhales as if short of breath while sitting or without moving. He has also for the last few days had frequent involuntary neck/head movement. No pain complains. ?
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A 20-year old male asked about a 17-year old male:
17 yrs Male,weight loss ,involuntary neck movements,takes leg back while walking,irritated,good IQ,moody,on antipsychotic drugs since 6 yrs on doc adv?
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A 28-year old female asked:
What could cause involuntary vocal cord vibration when lying down? For the past few weeks as i try to go to sleep my vocal cords will start making noise-it is not a snore or a wheeze, just a moan noise. This had never happened to me before and i'm wonderi
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A 36-year old female asked:
I keep having involuntary gasps of air. Sort of like a hiccup, but in my lungs & throat. I use asmanex 2puff/2x a day & ventolin. This gasping is new?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Mild tngling all over body, involuntary muscle contractions, sore throat which has cleared, and occasional shocks in body. 18m and very scared. Help?!
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A 25-year old male asked:
Can i die from cracking my neck? Like, can I twist it so far myself that it breaks or something?
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A male asked:
I twist my neck and my chest hurts, is it anything serious?
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A 35-year old asked:
I twisted my neck and then tried to turn the other way and felt a sharp pain. What does this sound like?
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A 29-year old male asked:
I do have a little pain in my back neck when I twist it hard, it feels like one rope is stitched from my head down to my back. ?
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A 53-year old male asked:
Are standing oblique twist, bar behind neck a good exercise?
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A 21-year old female asked:
I crack my lower back a lot by twisting, as well as my neck.. Can this be damaging and or bad?
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A 46-year old female asked:
I have a headache and hurting in the back of my neck for two days now.I'm a mail carrier so I do a lot of pulling and twisting?
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A 45-year old female asked:
Whats the best treatment when you awake with a bad pain in your neck radiating down your back? I know i slept twisted. Will pain go away on its own?
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A 25-year old female asked:
I know chiropractor neck manipulation can cause stroke from their violent twisting, but can a slow and gentle self neck manipulation cause a stroke?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Fell directly on shoulder with arm twisted behind me. Pain is getting worse. Hurts to touch and use arm. Radiates up neck and down arm.
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A 21-year old female asked:
Question. I turned my neck to the right to try to look at my back area and I felt like I twisted it back too much. My neck had a sharp pain so I stopped twisting and looked straight. Nape of neck feels tight. Should I be okay?
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A 29-year old female asked:
I hav psoriasis & experience spasms/ pains in my neck, painful when twisting sideways. also pain in the knees.could it be related to psoriasis?or what
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A 62-year old male asked:
Sometimes when I bend over or twist my neck a certain way, I get very dizzy,have fallen, then my neck starts hurting,and upper teeth start hurting.
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A 21-year old male asked:
Stifness & pain in neck,back & hip joint for over a year. I get temporary relief by crackling and twisting. Please help me.
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A 20-year old male asked:
Stifness and pain in neck, hip joint and back. I get relief only by crackling them by twisting.Suffering from over a year now. please help me.
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A 37-year old male asked:
Could Excessive severe daily neck twisting/ cracking type head movements from Tourette syndrome potentially cause tears in throat? If excessive coughing could I assume this could as well, no?
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A 52-year old male asked:
52 yr. old male. My right side neck muscles hurt. I must have slept wrong and twisted my neck while asleep last night. My neck is VERY stiff and painful when turning my head to the right. Can I take Prednisone to help? If so, how many milligrams?
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A female asked:
Minereas disease I have minereas disease and was told i had a twisted artery in my neck could this be effecting the minereas because now no medication works dizzy and ringing in ears pretty much constant can't take many more 8 hours of vomiting
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A 42-year old female asked:
What can cause neck pain and numbness in hands while sleeping. While working I have twisting of fingers and restless legs while resting.
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A 20-year old male asked:
Pain in almost every joint. Hav stiff back & neck in morning.Have to twist them to pop or click to get relief. Wt could b d cause & wt is d cure?
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A 56-year old male asked:
Pain in right hip when standing (sitting no pain at all). No swelling, discoloration was doing a twisting exercise with metal bar behind the neck .??
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A member asked:
Brief intense sharp pain in right earlobe. Pain pulses, lasts 5 to 30 seconds. Twisting head and neck to left sometimes helps. Had this all my life
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