The left upper quadrant (LUQ) is the left upper abdominal region, starting from the chest's middle line to the left side of the ribcage and down to the level of the navel (belly button).

This is down to the location of the organ. Meanwhile, an enlarged, ruptured, or damaged spleen “is usually felt as a pain behind your left ribs,” again thanks to its place in your body.

She also consults on digital content for physician medical education. Pain in the lower left abdomen is a common symptom that can stem from various underlying causes. Some common causes of lower ...

This is down to the location of the organ. Meanwhile, an enlarged, ruptured, or damaged spleen “is usually felt as a pain behind your left ribs,” again thanks to its place in your body. You should see ...

In all CHD cases (179 patients) and all other etiologies (1032 patients), the pain is mainly situated in the left anterior thoracic region between the sternum and the anterior axillary line.

Otherwise known (more appropriately) as kyphosis, the condition describes any rounding of the upper back. Here’s how to ...

DENVER, Colo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You don’t have to be an extreme athlete to have felt the extreme pain from a broken rib. Millions of people know what it feels like to break or fracture a rib, or ...

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Back pain often happens because something is off in the way your spinal joints, muscles, discs, and nerves fit together and move. Nighttime back pain is a special type of lower back pain that ...

Nikita Jones was cancer free earlier this year but now it has returned. She has been told she has just over a year left to ...

Kamala Harris declared in Tuesday’s debate that a vote for her is a vote “to end the approach that is about attacking the foundations of our democracy ’cause you don’t like the outcome ...

If the activists of the anti-Israel left have such a compelling case, why do they have to trample on the free speech rights of Americans to promote it?