Sentences with phrase «pain impulses from»

This reduces pain impulses from the surgery site in the immediate post-operative period.

Not exact matches

Medical device giant Medtronic has received FDA clearance for its latest non-medication pain treatment: Intellis, a system which stimulates the spinal cord with electrical impulses to block pain messages from making it to the brain.

Whenever an impulse from the world strikes against the organism, and the resultant is not discomfort or pain, not even the muscular contraction of strenuous manhood, but a joyous expansion or aspiration of the whole soul - there is religion.

It blocks impulses from the pain fibers, known as the Gate Theory of Pain.

The two researchers proposed that inhibitory nerve cells in the spinal cord determine whether a pain impulse coming from the periphery, such as the foot, is relayed to the brain or not.

The receptor transmits other types of painful stimuli in addition to the chili's sting, and knowing where capsaicin binds narrows down the range of molecules that could prevent the receptor from sending pain impulses.

One theory suggests that pain impulses are blocked from reaching the spinal cord or brain at various «gates» to these areas.

Out of the blue, she receives some bad news from back home, and Lelio shows that her first impulse is to try to anesthetise the pain with drink and casual sex.

Some of these are amantadine for pain, buspirone for anxiety, coenzyme Q - 10 for protecting cells from damage, and carnitine for improving nerve impulse transmission.

In pain control, experiments have shown a modification in neural impulse transmission from the spinal cord to the brain after acupuncture.

At the same time that these nerve impulses are going to the brain to tell you it hurts, there are other nerves in the spinal cord that go to the muscle near the area of pain and cause a reflex movement away from the pain.