On April 28, 2025, Jasmine Thum, M.D., M.S. assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Biomedical Engineering, hosted a peripheral ...

An accident nearly turned Jason Russo into a drug addict as he tried to blot out the pain in his leg. Robert Jackson had to use powerful narcotics after accidents tore up his back. A balky knee was ...

Peripheral Neuropathy in its simplest definition is damage to the peripheral nerves — nerves located outside the brain and spinal cord. It is a relatively common condition that is not isolated to any ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that targeting a specific immune process ...

RA can hurt your peripheral nerves, which are part of the peripheral nervous system. That’s the communication system that helps your central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) send and receive ...

First discovered in the 1950s, NGF is now known to direct the growth, maintenance, proliferation and preservation of neurons ...

Peripheral neuropathy symptoms often begin with pain or tingling in the hands and feet. Peripheral neuropathy is not common in children. Early diagnosis gives a better chance of reversing nerve damage ...

The majority of peripheral nerve injuries are best treated by a thoughtful surgical reconstruction. However, nonoperative treatment is indicated in several circumstances. The first of these is injury ...

A peripheral nerve block is a procedure done by an anesthesiologist to provide postoperative pain relief for people having knee replacement surgery. The anesthesiologist (a doctor specializing in pain ...

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is composed of all the nerves in the body, except for those present in the brain and spinal cord, which make up the central nervous system (CNS). Moreover, the PNS ...