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 ...

While sitting still at your desk or watching TV, you sense a feeling of muscular discomfort in your arm or leg. It’s not quite a charley horse, but you can see your skin pulsating involuntarily, as if ...

Doctors identify these movements as 'fasciculations', because they occur when individual nerve fibers, which control small muscle groups activate independently to produce brief muscle contractions.