Sentences with phrase «nerve damage which»

She has resisted this surgery because, even if it is successful, she will be left with continuing neck pain so resort to surgery would only be a desperate measure if she begins to suffer nerve damage which follows from the herniation or if her chronic pain worsens.

Spinal cord injuries typically involve nerve damage which may result in full or partial paralysis and other serious limitations.

The more common types of injuries include cuts and bruises caused by pressure on the head during birth, facial paralysis, bone fractures, brachial plexus injury (nerve damage which results in paralysis of the arm) and cerebral palsy.

These cells have the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and travel directly into the nervous system to improve blood flow to the brain and repair some of the nerve damage which has occurred as a result of your degenerative disease or neurological injury.

Not exact matches

I have read many things, most of which say chiles cause no nerve damage, but I have also read that capsaicin can in fact cause nerve damage (though they didn't mention the quantity).

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.

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.

Breast Trauma — Have you ever had an accident or injury which has caused nerve damage?

Later complications include weakness and numbness in 4 to 18 per 10,000 women, most of which resolve spontaneously within three months.65 — 69 Longer - term or permanent problems can arise from: damage to a nerve during epidural placement; from abscess or hematoma (blood clot), which can compress the spinal cord; and from toxic reactions in the covering of the spinal cord, which can lead to paraplegia.70

Some of this damage includes nerve damage, which can also result in paralysis in some cases.

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

In a separate study4, researchers found that OSA was also linked to nerve damage (neuropathy5), which in extreme cases can lead to amputation.

Neuropathy is nerve damage and a long term complication of diabetes.Neuropathy can lead to foot ulcers and slow - healing wounds which, if they become infected, can result in amputation.

Mice with this eye disease, which damages the optic nerve and causes vision loss, have higher levels of the immune molecule, which accumulates at retinal synapses before the neurons die.

Payne keyed in the symptoms, and the computer program suggested a handful of potential conditions, including a rare disease called amyloidosis, in which abnormal proteins build up in the body, interfering with normal organ function and causing nerve damage.

Damaged mouse sciatic nerves produced hundreds of times the normal amount of two «chemoattractant» molecules, Cxcl1 and Cxcl2, which attach to the surfaces of neutrophils and draw the immune cells into injured tissue.

They also found AXIN2 in the damaged nerve cells of adults with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks myelin.

The method is similar to one already tried in people who have lost an arm: The doctors at Northwestern University and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago removed nerves from damaged muscle in Vawter's amputated leg and connected them to hamstring muscle in his thigh, which had been left intact.

Tear samples from patients with diabetes show elevated levels of substance P, which are related to early damage to the corneal nerves, which may contribute to the development of corneal ulcers and poor wound healing in patients with diabetes, according to the pilot study by Maria Markoulli, PhD, MOptom, FAAO, and colleagues of University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

The panel continues to recommend a three - part therapy that contains AZT, or the HIV inhibitor called TDF, in the place of stavudine, which can alter fat metabolism and cause nerve damage.

Specifically, the Mount Sinai study was designed to test whether pharmacological compounds designed to block the function of XPO1 / CRM1 could stop disease progression in mouse models that exhibit some of the characteristics of MS. Researchers found that two chemical agents (called KPT - 276 and KPT - 350) prevented XPO1 / CRM1 from shuttling cargo out of the nucleus of nerve cells, which protected them from free radicals and structural damage.

In the Gulf War, soldiers were both exposed to stress and given AChE inhibitors to prevent nerve gas damage, which might combine to create a brief burst of unusually high acetylcholine levels — and a long - term acetylcholine deficit, Soreq points out.

Doctors in those jurisdictions may prescribe cannabis to treat or manage ailments ranging from glaucoma — an eye disease in which the optic nerve is damaged — to menstrual cramps.

Studies in rats and dogs have already demonstrated that olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which insulate bundles of nerve cells, can help repair damage to the spinal cord and nerves leading to animals» paws.

Crude devices a little like this already exist; years ago I helped Joe Rosen, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Dartmouth Medical School, build one — the «nerve chip,» which was an early attempt to route around nerve damage using prosthetics.

MS is an incurable disease in which the insulation around the nerves becomes damaged, disrupting the communication between body and brain.

Plaque hinders neuronal activity by gumming up synapses (spaces between cells through which chemical or electrical information is transmitted), eventually damaging nerve cell branches and leading to neuronal death.

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.

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.

Celiac disease, which results from a sensitivity to gluten, was associated with a 2.5-fold increased risk of neuropathy (nerve damage), according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.

Importantly, the research team also looked at optic nerves of the central nervous system, which are damaged in glaucoma, and found similar protective effects from the loss of Phr1.

In humans, leprosy causes nerve and muscle damage which can lead to deformity, disability and blindness if left untreated.

RIPK1, the researchers found, inflicts damage by directly attacking the body's myelin production plants — nerve cells known as oligodendrocytes, which secrete the soft substance, rich in fat and protein that wraps around axons to support their function and shield them from damage.

Approximately 9 % of the world's adult population has diabetes, which can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, nerve damage, eye problems, and kidney disease.

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 drops protected the animals» retinal ganglion cells and optic nerves, both of which are generally damaged by the disease.

Roberts explained that when the auditory nerves are damaged, brain cells increase their sensitivity to their remaining inputs, which can make ordinary sounds seem louder.

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

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.

Unlike peripheral nerves, which re-sprout axons when they are damaged, mature spinal neurons do not regrow axons in the part of the body where the injury has occurred — such as when the spinal cord is cut or crushed — which results in paralysis below the injury.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

Indeed, some of the most interesting papers presented at the conference, which brought about 20,000 scientists to San Francisco last week, described innovative new polymers, the generic chemical term, that could help thwart ovarian cancer and infections, and regenerate damaged nerves.

This leads to elevated blood sugar levels, which damages the nerves, kidneys, and leads to cardiovascular disease.

Glaucoma is thought to be a disease in which the optic nerve sustains damage due to increased eye pressure, resulting in a restricted visual field.

Glaucoma comprises a group of eye diseases that cause pressure to build up in the eye, which damages the optic nerve and ultimately leads to blindness.

Ten people will receive injections into the injury site of hESC - derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, which stimulate the growth of new and severed nerves and recoat damaged nerves with myelin.

The study showed that a peripheral nerve injury in rats sends a message from damaged nerve cells to spinal cord immune cells known as glial cells, which normally act as «housekeepers» to clear out unwanted debris and microorganisms.

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

At the time, another neural prosthetic was just gaining traction: cochlear implants, which bypass damaged cells in the inner ear to directly stimulate the auditory nerve.