Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of peripheral nerve stimulation may reduce pain scores and opioid consumption after lower limb amputation, ...

After amputation, the brain does not forget a missing limb. Motor pathways keep firing commands down nerves that no longer reach a leg, suggesting that movement-related neural pathways remain active ...

Some sciatica pain is linked to a tight piriformis muscle, explains Dr. Desai, which is a pear-shaped muscle near the hips and pelvis under which the sciatic nerve runs. For this type of sciatic pain, ...

Seven cases of mononeuropathy multiplex occurring in association with diabetes mellitus are described, including a case previously reported in which numerous small infarcts in the peripheral nerve ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2007;3(6):331-340. Recent developments in our understanding of pain perception have shown that transmission of painful stimuli depends on activation of sodium channels that are ...

Nerve transfer surgery has enabled 13 young adults with complete paralysis to regain movement and function in their elbows and hands, according to the largest case series of this technique in people ...

Extremity reconstruction surgery can be life-changing for people whose hands, arms or legs have been affected by cancer, an infection, a traumatic injury, congenital (birth) defect, or other ...

Diabetic neuropathy can worsen over a period of many years. If it continues to progress, it can lead to potentially serious complications. Managing your blood sugar can help slow progression, ...