Sentences with phrase «caused by nerve»

Carpal tunnel syndrome, caused by nerve compression in the wrist, is another possibility to consider.

This is a common condition in American Football and other contact sports, caused by nerve compression from impact to the neck and shoulder area.

In this case, the prompt medical attention by the clinician and the emergency services who initially cared for the Skripals will have helped reduce or perhaps eliminate some of the major harm caused by nerve agent exposure.

Heavy sedation would have had the effect of stopping the nerve cells firing very rapidly and becoming damaged, which is one of the changes caused by nerve agents.

Shoemaker has been studying gene therapy as a novel way to treat diseases such as botulism, a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

This neurotoxin is the cause of botulism, which is a rare, but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

Their findings, reported June 17 in the journal Neuron, could lead to treatments for chronic pain conditions caused by nerve damage, such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), as well as chronic inflammation, like rheumatoid arthritis.

Neuropathic pain — chronic pain caused by nerve damage — is a significant problem, affecting around 8 per cent of Europeans.

Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin, botulin, that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

The first, published in 2008, found that smoking marijuana reduced pain caused by nerve damage in 38 patients, with minimal side effects.

The DOD - funded research will target the use of Sprint specifically for amputees suffering from moderate to severe neuropathic pain — chronic pain typically caused by nerve damage.

Instead, neuropathic pain is caused by the nerves themselves.

Not exact matches

As for the sensitivity issues, those are gradually lessened thanks to the inclusion of natural potassium nitrate, which desensitizes teeth by filling in those tiny tubules that expose dentin and connect the underlying nerves to the hot, cold, or pressure causing pain.

If the human body were designed by an omniscient and omnipotent being surely it would not have made such a poor job of the laryngeal nerve in mammals, the spine not being optimal for bi-pedal gait, the blind spot caused by the optic nerve, etc. etc..

Just as I started to come to grips with permanent nerve damage and an array of side effects caused by my treatments, another crisis struck.

Mackey persuaded a doctor to cut off his left index finger, which throbbed with pain from nerve damage caused by radiation treatments.

And it took some time for him to regain dexterity in his left hand after he persuaded a doctor to cut off the index finger, which throbbed with pain from nerve damage caused by radiation treatments.

«In some players it might cause nerves and not by attitude, they might underperform a bit.

In addition, the heavy uterus exerts pressure on the back as well as the pelvic regiono 39 weeks pregnant back pain could also be caused by pressure exerted on the sciatic nerve and begins in the lower back area and may stretch right down the legsg As a result of a lopsided figure, sleeping comfortably becomes difficult and this puts a strain on various muscles, especially those in the backc As a result of this, many pregnant women complain of 39 weeks pregnant, upper back paini The best way to relieve this kind of pain is by having a hot batht Some women are known to benefit from hot compresses as well as light, soothing back massagese

Doctors do great disservice by telling women they will likely not be able to handle the pain, and quickly offer a «way out» (that carries the risk of a needle hitting a nerve and causing more long term pain than fully feeling a one or two day labor).

Dr Sprott states with certainty that the cause of cot death has been discovered: it is caused by very toxic nerve gases which -LSB-...]

Carpal tunnel syndrome is when you experience a tingling or numbing sensation in your hand or arm, that is caused by a pinched nerve in your wrist.

All of the nerve agents, old and new, operate on the same biochemical principles and cause the same mechanism of injury by provoking a «cholinergic crisis».

The clinical manifestations of tetanus are caused when tetanus toxin blocks inhibitory nerve impulses, by interfering with the release of neurotransmitters.

The nonsense in dreams is caused by random electrical noise in nerve cells, asserted Hobson, a kind of cellular static; repression had nothing to do with it.

Previous research by the same research group showed that the nerve endings reach the dermal - epidermal junction and release the virus that infects the skin and can cause lesions.

Neutrophils are one of the most common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.

The intense pain is caused by the dilation of blood vessels which creates pressure on the trigeminal nerve.

Grégoire Courtine at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland and colleagues previously restored movement to rats with spinal injuries similar to those causing lower - body paralysis in humans, by using a cocktail of chemicals and direct stimulation of spinal nerves.

The researchers also examined skin slices from two patients with another form of nerve disease called AL amyloidosis, caused by a bone marrow disorder.

The remaining seven percent of patients underwent PSR — a percutaneous operation in which the nerve fibers causing pain are destroyed by a needle inserted from the cheek all the way into the skull.

Qi concluded that the peptide reduced nerve cell impairment caused by Huntington's disease in the animal model.

But their prominence at sites where nerve cells are damaged by the disease means they deserve careful scrutiny in the desperate search for ways to arrest the most salient cause of dementia.

The disease is caused by a genetic mutation that leads to abnormal clumps of protein in the brain, eventually resulting in the atrophy and death of nerve cells.

Arthur Neufeld and his colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis are among the labs looking for ways to block the nerve damage caused by the pressure buildup.

Blocking the activity of a single enzyme can nearly halt the nerve damage caused by glaucoma in mice, according to a paper in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

It has fallen on the blind spot of your left eye, a small patch of retina called the optic disk that is devoid of receptors (an imperfection caused by the optic nerve piercing the retina as it exits the eyeball).

The condition occurs when the facial nerve is damaged by swelling or pressure, but the exact cause of Bell's palsy is unknown.

Endometriosis is caused by uterus lining (endometrium) cells moving elsewhere in the body where they can compress nerves and bleed in time with a woman's menstrual cycle.

«Sensitive teeth are caused by the movement of fluid in tiny holes in dentine called microtubules, which puts pressure on the nerve below,» says Nigel Hughes, one of the researchers at Unilever.

«However, the capillary constriction produced by pericytes may, by restricting the blood supply for a long time, cause further damage to nerve cells even after the clot is removed.

Nociceptive pain is caused by a painful stimulus on special nerve endings called nociceptors.

«We have shown that pericytes initiate the increase in blood flow seen when nerve cells become active, so we now know that functional imaging signals are caused by a pericyte - mediated increase of capillary diameter.

He explains that because VEGF - A naturally stimulates regeneration of nerves and the blood vessels that nourish them, it can reverse the damage caused by the glucose - driven degeneration.

A new study from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is the first to show precisely how a process in nerve cells called the S - nitrosylation (SNO) reaction — which can be caused by aging, pesticides and pollution — may contribute to Parkinson's disease.

In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, scientists demonstrate in rats that a short duration of the drug donepezil can reverse both structural and genetic damage that bouts of alcohol use causes in neurons, or nerve cells, in the young brain.

By compressing nerves in the internal auditory canal, the tumors can cause dizziness and facial nerve paralysis, in addition to hearing loss.

Past research has focused on prevention of the disease by reducing the levels of proteins that cause brain plaques and tangles and kill nerve cells.

THE mysterious illness known as Gulf War syndrome may have been caused by the combined effect of a pill given to protect against nerve gas and an insect repellent, according to preliminary results from American research.

«In this exciting new study, the authors provide support for a new experimental treatment approach that works by helping nerve cells digest toxic proteins that might otherwise cause cell death,» said John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.