Sentences with phrase «nerve damage is caused»

Things like bunions, blisters, plantar fasciitis, and nerve damage are all caused by modern day footwear.

Not exact matches

That will soothe your damaged nipples and cover the nerve endings so it will also ease the pain but it is important to know the underlying cause which could still be attributed to latching on and positioning.

They found the levels they detected around the baby to be high enough to cause nerve damage.

During surgery, an incision may be made across or around the dark area around your nipples, which can cause nerve damage in this area.

Neurologist Anne Louise Oaklander at Massachausetts General Hospital has shown the cause is far weirder: Nerve damage on one side actually creates a matching injury on the other side of the body.

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.

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.

To see whether NOS - 2 might be causing the nerve damage, the researchers added an NOS - 2 inhibitor called aminoguanidine to the rats» drinking water.

They first injected a fragment of myelin protein into the brains of the test mice, causing nerve damage similar to that seen in MS patients.

What causes the initial nerve damage or incites the immune attack is still a big question.

The disease is generally pretty mild — on par with flu — but health workers have recently found that a small number of patients seem to go on to develop an autoimmune disorder that can cause nerve damage and paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome.

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

The iPhone did get a clean bill of health from Greenpeace in several areas: no cadmium (a carcinogen) or mercury (a toxin known to cause nerve and organ damage) was detected, and lead and chromium (toxic if ingested or inhaled) were detected in a small proportion of samples and at relatively low concentrations.

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

When I was 8 years old, it caused this disorder called hydrocephalus where the tumor is blocking the cerebral fluid in the brain and that automatically creates pressure within the ventricles and it starts affecting different parts of the brain, and in my case it damaged my optic nerve.

«Our hypothesis is that it's this, the damaged nerve cells» resistance to maturation that causes the disease.»

«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.

Neuropathic pain, or chronic pain, is caused when nerves in the central nervous system are damaged.

Diabetic neuropathy nerve damage, which causes a loss of sensation in the hands and feet, can allow small injuries to go unnoticed and become severely infected, to the point where amputation is the only option.

The impact from a single heading is unlikely to cause traumatic brain damage such as laceration of nerve fibers.

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.

The burning sensation has been compared to touching a hundred - watt lightbulb but without the singed hair — the system is only playing with your nerve endings, not causing permanent damage.

Researchers back then found that exposure to aluminum caused rabbits» brains to develop nerve cell damage — thought to be a precursor to Alzheimer's at the time — and long - term dialysis patients with high levels of the metal developed dementia.

While different forms of the disease vary in their symptoms and underlying genetic causes, the common thread is that CMT damages the nerves in a person's arms and legs.

Ivermectin, the established drug which successfully treats the infection, is known to be effective against minor damage caused to the front of the eye by the worm, but until now scientists had very little clear evidence about the drug's role in preventing more serious effects of infection, in particular damage to the optic nerve.

Those with cancer pain that is not caused by damaged nerves may not be candidates for the drug, Villarreal said.

In glaucoma, this vessel can be defective or missing, creating pressure buildup that can damage the optic nerve and cause vision loss.

A particular type of macrophage known as microglia are found throughout the brain and spinal cord — in progressive forms of MS, they attack the CNS, causing chronic inflammation and damage to nerve cells.

Working with Tanz researcher Tetsuro Murakami and with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and Columbia University, they focused initially on the FUS protein, and discovered that these abnormal clumps could actually be a very important player in causing nerve cell damage and ALS.

A century on, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have made the loss of limbs common among military casualties once again, but while prosthetic technology has improved dramatically, there is still a shortage of effective treatments for pain caused by damaged nerves.

As a result, the entire city is contaminated with the heavy metal, which can cause brain and nerve damage in children and fetuses.

Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness in the United States, is characterized by increased pressure in the eye, which can damage the optic nerve.

BAR HARBOR, MAINE — Recent research by Sandra Rieger, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory identifying the underlying mechanisms of peripheral neuropathy, or nerve damage, has raised the prospect that drug therapies can be developed for the treatment of this condition, which causes pain, numbness and / or tingling in the hands and feet.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

Studying owl monkeys and squirrel monkeys, he found that damage to a nerve, or loss of one or two fingers caused the portion of the map that had lost its input to be overtaken by neighbouring maps, as neurons in the affected area became responsive to other areas of skin.

Dementia is caused by damage — pathological or physical — to nerve cells and synapses.

Summary: The goal of this project is to discover changes in the eye that occur before the nerve damage that causes glaucoma.

Summary: Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide characterized by irreversible damage in the optic nerve head (ONH).

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.

This might also have the effect of reducing or eliminating one specific effect of certain nerve agents which is to cause longer term nerve damage, a syndrome call organophosphate induced delayed neuropathy (OPIDN).

Based on these results, the drugs are now advertised to those suffering from moderate to severe primary restless legs syndrome — meaning symptoms that aren't caused by any other known condition, like nerve damage or a vitamin deficiency.

Feet are particularly vulnerable because nerve - damage may cause numbness, so that it's easy to miss blisters, splinters, or small cuts.

The nerve may not be fully decompressed after surgery, or the surgery itself could cause nerve damage.

It has also been linked to other brain and autoimmune problems, including Guillain - Barré syndrome, a disorder that can cause nerve damage.

Botox and dermal fillers are a temporary fix and in some cases can cause nerve damage if not performed correctly.

These are caused by damage to nerves (due to the accumulation of homocysteine and methylmalonic acid) and low neurotransmitter levels (because of the impaired synthesis of methionine, a precursor of many neurotransmitters).

Most of these chemicals are known toxins which cause cancer, birth defects, damage nerves and the immune system.

His medication contained both a calcium channel blocker — which is known to exacerbate reflux, and a statin (cholesterol lowering medication)-- known to sometimes cause peripheral neuropathy or nerve damage.

There's also some new info out that nerve damage in the forehead can cause migraines, and they're using botox and facial surgery to correct it.