Sciatica refers to nerve pain that travels down the legs due to compressed or irritated spinal nerve roots. In addition to pain, it can also cause tingling, burning, numbness, and weakness in the leg, ...

In mice that selectively lack this isoform, SCPs initially populate spinal nerves, but their number is severely depleted by E14, which shows that the type III isoform is necessary for the survival ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

Thumb numbness is a symptom often attributed to a "pinched nerve" of the hand, wrist, or spine. In addition, numbness may be due to a disease or medications that cause demyelination (destruction of ...

I was being bed-bathed when a cheerful young doctor popped up to ask if he may insert his finger in my rectum (part of a test to rate my spinal nerve damage); the ‘chef’s kiss’ to my ...

The pain occurs when the mass of feces presses on the nerves in the lower back ... A person with a history of spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, or surgery on the colon may also be ...

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) refers to damage caused anywhere on the spinal cord and its cells, including nerve cells, often resulting from car accidents, sports mishaps, and other traumas. Despite new ...

Inflammatory response, cell apoptosis, cell death, and secondary neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury hinder nerve repair and regeneration. NMN intervention may play a neuroprotective role ...

Purpose: To explore whether stimulation of C-fibers in tibial nerves can induce bladder inhibition by optogenetic transdermal illumination. Methods: Ten rats were injected with AAV2/6-hSyn-ChR2(H134R) ...