Spinal cord damage—whether from traumatic injury or conditions such as spina bifida—can have a profound impact on bladder ...

Q: I develop left leg pain when I try to walk faster. If I stop, the pain quickly improves. I can start walking again, but at a very slow pace. What’s the usual cause? A: The three most common reasons ...

Neuroinflammation seen in spinal cord, nerve roots of patients with chronic sciatica Location of inflammation may determine which patients are successfully treated with steroid injections Date ...

How to treat sciatic nerve damage “The pain of sciatica can be distressing, but spinal decompression is an excellent, effective and pain-free treatment,” Wootton said. “The process allows ...

In the new study, researchers evaluated the effect of two peripheral nerve lesions (injuries) in animals with spinal cord injury. One lesion was made at the time of the cord injury and a second was ...

In a 14-hour surgery performed in July 2000, Dr. Giorgio Brunelli of the Universita’ di Brescia in Italy removed a portion of the 28-year-old’s sciatic nerve and used it as a graft to connect ...

In two separate studies, researchers have identified how peripheral nerve injury can lead to increased pain sensitivity. The studies were published on May 25, 2022, in Nature and May 26, 2022, in ...

Because the therapy targeted the specific location of sciatic nerve injury in the mice, they had no detectable side effects, according to the authors. "One of the prerequisites of a clinically ...

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29, 2017 -- A new treatment that aims electrical pulses at irritated nerves around the spinal cord appears effective at relieving chronic lower back pain and sciatica, a ...

Overall the study results indicated that, compared with those of control participants, TSPO levels in sciatica patients were higher in both the neuroforamina and the spinal cord. The sciatica ...