You may be familiar with the sudden aching pain in your calves that can sometimes stop you in your tracks or wake you from sleep. It’s more commonly known as a “charley horse.”
Did you know that the regular use of vibrating hand tools may result in damage to the fingers, hands, and even forearms and can lead to a condition known as Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS)?
Despite having many age-old names, such as coccidioidomycosis, desert fever, cocci, San Joaquin Valley fever, California fever, and desert rheumatism, Valley fever is a modern-day reality that has been on the rise in the United States in the last two decades.