From standing on your head and pressing on your eyeballs to breathing through a paper bag and chewing on a lemon, people will do just about anything to get rid of hiccups. The sudden, involuntary ...

SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For many stroke survivors, recovery is derailed by painful muscle stiffness and involuntary spasms that limit movement, independence and quality of life.

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 ...

The would-be Secretary of Health and Human Services lives with a rare neurological condition that causes vocal cord spasms and a strained and raspy voice. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spasmodic dysphonia ...

Not everyone likes the explanation, but many doctors believe conversion disorder is what's behind the twitching that has stricken the teenage girls of Le Roy, NY. In other words, the mysterious ...

Just when I thought I had a real handle on panic attacks (after all, I wrote a book on the topic), something new came to my attention. A number of people have recently mentioned that, during a panic ...

An optometrist explains what causes that irritating eyelid flutter, and the warning signs you shouldn't ignore ...