Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a rare movement disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions on one side of the face. It typically starts with painless but annoying twitching around one eye. Over ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whenever I get severely anxious, there's a small muscle beneath my throat that twitches consistently for at least a few days, until it goes away on its own. Before I went to my doctor about it, though ...

Vic Oyas M.D., is a neurology patient and doctors are trying to get a 3-D picture of what's causing his eye to twitch. As you can see it never stops and he's been dealing with it for more than a ...

That's just what happened to one man, whose facial spasms kept progressively getting worse over time. Then a local neurosurgeon reached out to offer help for this lifelong problem. Dr. Vic Oyas' Oyas ...

A twitch is a small, involuntary contraction and relaxation of a muscle or group of muscles. Medication side effects, physical exertion, fatigue, and excessive caffeine can all cause twitching in the ...

I have been serving in the Navy since I was 18 years old. I went into active duty and served in the 80s, including a stint on a ship in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War in 1986. After active ...