By Dr. Rusty Lavender Numbness and Tingling in the Hands: Almost everyone has experienced it at some point — that pins-and-needles sensation when a hand “falls asleep,” the strange numbness that creeps in while you are holding your phone, the...

By Dr. Rusty Lavender Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: The symptoms are familiar to millions of people. Numbness and tingling in the thumb, index, and middle fingers. Hands that fall asleep at night and wake you up needing to shake them out....

By Dr. Rusty Lavender Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: It often starts as something easy to dismiss. An ache in the shoulder. Numbness or tingling in the hand, especially the ring and little fingers. An arm that fatigues and feels heavy when...

By Dr. Rusty Lavender Long Covid: You had COVID. Maybe it was mild, maybe it knocked you flat for a couple of weeks. Either way, you expected to recover and move on. But weeks turned into months, and the symptoms...

By Dr. Rusty Lavender Sciatica: Few pains command your attention like sciatica. It starts somewhere deep in the low back or buttock and then shoots — sharp, electric, burning — down the back of the leg, sometimes all the way...

By Dr. Rusty Lavender and Dr. Jacob Temple If you have myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome — ME/CFS — you already know what it is to be exhausted at a level that other people cannot quite comprehend. The fatigue that does...