Sentences with phrase «for nerve damage»

I have never smoked, have no heart or health problems except for nerve damage to my spine.

Because of the potential for nerve damage and even paralysis, cauda equina syndrome is typically considered a surgical emergency.

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For help filing a South Carolina personal injury claim for nerve damage after a South Carolina car accident, contact a Charleston personal injury attorney.

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I may need surgery for nerve damage.

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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.

For years Ullman had suffered from nerve damage that makes it hard for him to walk (he moves around the offices by SegwaFor years Ullman had suffered from nerve damage that makes it hard for him to walk (he moves around the offices by Segwafor him to walk (he moves around the offices by Segway).

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.

Twice in the next three years he underwent surgery, and the first operation was unspeakably cruel, for the nerves that controlled what he cherished most, his voice and his vision, were damaged.

Although there was no nerve or arterial damage, it appears that the third - year quarterback will be sidelined for the entirety of the 2016 season.

Biopsy to remove tissue for diagnostic analysis can damage lactation ducts or nerves depending on the technique, amount of tissue removed and location of the incision.

Even though breast surgery can damage the ducts and nerves necessary for breastfeeding, severed ducts and nerves can actually rebuild themselves through processes known as recanalization and reinnervation.

When adults do this, it can indicate a health issue such as facial nerve damage, but in infants, it is only worrisome if they keep them eyes open for so long that their eyes get red and irritated.

For both women and men, diseases such as Alzheimers, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinsons, and nerve damage and urinary tract infections can also contribute to bladder problems.

But the case could have ended much worse than with mom suffering nerve damage and pain for months afterward.

If a breast biopsy is necessary, a surgery - free needle biopsy is the best choice to reduce likelihood of damaging milk ducts and nerves but even a surgical biopsy can leave enough unaffected areas for successful breastfeeding.

Over the next few days, they told us that her arms had nerve damage from her shoulders getting stuck and a couple of days later, someone filed a complaint against us citing medical neglect for having her at home vs. the recommended C - section since she was breech.

I didn't want an epidural either and wanted a natural birth, but because of a lower back injury prolapse disks, nerve damage syatica, snapping hip syndrome it's too dangerous for me and my baby to try natural at all.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

Fingertips, the most likely site of damage, are loaded with the nerve endings — including the pain - interpreting nociceptors — necessary for the constant exploration of the environment.

Although treatments are available for the disease, they do not repair the damage to nerve cells.

Currently, skin biopsy is the accepted standard for measuring the loss of small, unmyelinated C fibers in the epidermis, one of the earliest detectable signs of peripheral nerve damage.

Researchers already knew that even without opioids, some people with chronic pain from nerve damage or fibromyalgia, for example, experience hyperalgesia when normal pain signaling gets reinforced and amplified over time.

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.

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.

The system effectively mimics the way healthy people control their limbs, but because it bypasses the spinal cord, it could be useful for nerve - damaged individuals.

It turns out that the chemical that gives chili peppers their kick, capsaicin, is also responsible for soothing several forms of pain from aching muscles or damaged nerves.

Researchers note these tiny artificial tubes could one day serve as conduits for regenerating nerves severed in accidents or damaged by disease.

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.

When someone suffers a head trauma, sometimes there is damage to the optic nerve that is responsible for passing information between the eyes and the brain.

The researchers were able to shut down Rb for a short amount of time and did not observe any negative results, leading them to feel optimistic that this could one day be used as a safe treatment for patients suffering from nerve damage.

Xue said C. elegans is an ideal organism to use in the hunt for new therapeutics to treat nerve damage because of its relatively small, well - known genome and short life span — just a few days.

«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.

«Research findings have implications for regenerating damaged nerve cells.»

Salah Ahmad of the Kirkuk Center for Torture Victims, which runs a rehab centre in Halabja, reports chronic neurological damage due to the nerve agent.

«We don't have a solution yet for treating people with nerve damage, but we feel these findings offer promise in seeking new and effective therapeutics.»

Although maximizing cancer removal is critical to improve patient survival, removing too much healthy tissue can also have profound negative consequences for patients: For example, breast cancer patients could experience higher risk of painful side effects and nerve damage, in addition to aesthetic impacfor patients: For example, breast cancer patients could experience higher risk of painful side effects and nerve damage, in addition to aesthetic impacFor example, breast cancer patients could experience higher risk of painful side effects and nerve damage, in addition to aesthetic impacts.

Both are released at elevated levels following a concussion or other injury that damages nerve fibers, and both can be detected within 20 minutes of a head injury (although it may take longer for doctors and patients to get the results from a lab).

Theodore Price, associate professor of neuroscience at The University of Texas at Dallas and a leading expert on chronic pain, tested UKH - 1114 on mice with nerve damage and found that it alleviated pain as well as gabapentin did, but at a much lower dose (one - sixth as much) and was effective much longer (lasting for a couple of days, compared with 4 to 6 hours).

The new technique, described in next month's Nature Medicine, could someday be used to prevent organ rejection in people, as well as eliminate the need for lifelong immune - suppressing drugs that make most transplant recipients susceptible to infections, cancers, and nerve damage.

Humans might not want spare eyeballs on their backs, but the same technique could be useful for growing new organs to replace damaged ones, or for developing therapies to repair damaged nerve connections.

One such treatment is already under development for testing in humans after the current study showed it stopped nerve cell damage in mice with ALS.

The health implications of diabetes are daunting — heart disease, nerve damage, and worse — so the search for a cure has been fierce.

For a damaged nerve to regain function, its long, signal - transmitting extensions known as axons need to grow and establish new connections to other cells.

The researchers believe that this technology could also be used for other patient groups who need to rehabilitate their movement capability, for example after a stroke, nerve damage or hand injury.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than 9 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes and an estimated 50 percent of people with diabetes have some form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage caused by high levels of blood sugar, although not all have symptoms.

A leading cause of blindness in the world especially for the elderly, glaucoma is caused by high intra-ocular pressure in the eye which then leads to damage to the optic nerve.

Implantable prostheses designed to deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve hold considerable promise for people with a type of deafness in which the sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged

Thirty - five adults older than 65 were recruited for the study, including 14 healthy participants, 10 individuals with Parkinson's disease, and 11 adults who had impaired feeling in their legs owing to peripheral neuropathy (nerve damage).