During a routine test, Johnny's middle school nurse discovered his severe scoliosis, a prevalent symptom of Marfan. This unexpectedly set his family on a path to uncover his underlying diagnosis at ...

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the presence and size of dural ectasia is associated with back pain in patients with Marfan syndrome. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Dural ectasia is present in more ...

Kayleigh Dixon has spent her adult life struggling with a range of back and spinal conditions. These include a condition ...

PIP claims range from £28.70 to £184.30 per week, meaning successful applicants could receive between £114.80 and £737.20 ...

Arthritis is a broad term with common ones includes osteoarthritis, back pain, rheumatoid arthritis ... generalised Osteoarthritis Chronic pain syndrome Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) Fibromyalgia ...

Scoliosis is one of the most commonly encountered pediatric spinal deformities ... familial dysautonomia (Riley-Day syndrome) or Werdnig-Hoffmann disease. Syndrome-associated scoliosis is observed ...

Vascular complications, though rare in classical EDS, can be life-threatening, and this necessitates one to look for vascular associations in non-vascular, such as classical, forms of EDS due to the ...

In light of the effects that PP2A can exert on the mTOR pathway, we hypothesized that PP2A activation by small-molecule activators of PP2A could mitigate AA progression in Marfan syndrome (MFS). Two ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, piriformis syndrome causes pain or numbness in a person’s butt, hip or leg. The pain ...

Piriformis syndrome is a rare neuromuscular condition that happens when the piriformis muscle in the butt presses on the sciatic nerve, according to the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center ...