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 ...

Nerve damage generally happens slowly, says Isha Gupta, M.D., neurologist. So you might be able to catch it and prevent it ...

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 ...

The sciatic nerve is the body's largest and longest nerve. It begins in the lower back, where nerve shoots from the spinal cord intertwine to form the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...