Chemotherapy has long forced patients to choose between fighting their cancer and living with nerve pain that can linger for years after treatment ends. Now a wave of basic science and early clinical ...

Each year in the United States there are more than 3 million cases of peripheral neuropathy, wherein nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord are damaged and cause pain and loss of feeling in the ...

The obturator nerve is a large, multibranched nerve that travels through your pelvis to your inner thigh. This nerve helps you feel sensations like temperature and pain in your lower limbs. It also ...

Current methods for repairing injured nerves can be hit-and-miss and are restricted to repair over short distances. For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk to create a ...

Microscopic cross-section through a peripheral nerve bundle (dark blue), which contains hundreds of nerve fibers coated with Schwann cells. Numerous large fat cells (light blue) can be seen in the ...

The sural nerve, positioned beneath the skin’s surface in the back of your lower leg, plays a critical role in your body’s sensory network. As a component of the peripheral nervous system, this nerve ...

Practicing yoga on a regular basis may help soothe the adverse effects of peripheral neuropathy, and some research backs this up. In one study, people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy completed two ...

The NEUROFUSE Study is an ongoing 48-week Multicenter, Randomized, evaluator-blinded, Phase 2a study in upper extremity nerve transections comparing NTX-001 adjunctive to standard of care (SOC) to SOC ...

Health effects from chronic, low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides have not been studied extensively and are not well-establishe This report follows up a study in New York State in which a ...

One of the main problems preventing optimal regeneration following peripheral nerve injuries is that axons within severed nerves have difficulty regenerating and reaching their target. This may be ...