William O. Roberts, MD, a family physician at MinnHealth, in Minnesota, and vice president at the American College of Sports Medicine, likens a stress fracture to bending a paperclip back and forth: Eventually you get little cracks. While stress fractures are pretty common in the lower extremities -- the shin, foot, ankle-- they can also occur in the back or in the arms, says Nicholas A. DiNubile, MD, an orthopaedic consultant to the Philadelphia '76ers and the Pennsylvania Ballet.
A headache or cephalalgia is pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck. It can be a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and neck. Headaches can result from a wide range of causes both benign and more serious. Brain tissue itself is not sensitive to pain as it lacks pain receptors.
Headache (Definition) The medical term is cephalalgia. It is a feeling of pain that can occur on either both sides or just one side of the head or neck. Headaches can be sharp, dull, or throbbing, and can radiate to different areas of the head. They typically last less than an hour but can last for several days. ...Read more.