Complications after this procedure may include nerve or blood vessel damage. This damage may lead to temporary or permanent numbness or weakness. Stretching or even a rupture of the graft is also ...

Until recently, precisely localizing the site(s) of peripheral nerve damage was difficult, which made it challenging for doctors to accurately diagnose and treat peripheral nerve disorders. At HSS, we ...

What is cervical radiculopathy? What causes it? What are the symptoms? What does a pinched nerve in the neck feel like? Cervical radiculopathy is pain and neuropathy in the neck that results from a ...

The vagus nerve is essential to many bodily processes, including digestion and a steady heart rate. Stimulating it could help prevent or stop chronic inflammation, which is linked to disease.

Stimulating your vagus nerve could help you live longer. A top scientist shares 3 easy things he does to activate his.

Throughout the tumultuous trading months of this year, Christopher Harvey has never flinched when it came to his Wall Street-topping S&P 500 SPX target of 7,007. “I was asked many times if I was ...

Each has a different function. For example, the olfactory nerve is essential for detecting smells. The functions of the cranial nerves are sensory, motor, or both. Sensory cranial nerves help a ...

This is a ruptured, or herniated, disk. The fragments of disk material can then press on the nerve roots located just behind the disk space. This can cause pain, weakness, numbness, or changes in ...

The OptaBlate BVN nerve ablation system. [Images courtesy of Stryker] Stryker (NYSE: SYK) + announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its OptaBlate basivertebral nerve ablation ...

Parietosupraoccipital wide, posterior process long and contacting nuchal plate. Two laminar infraorbitals with minute odontodes; infraorbital 1 large, anterior portion largely expanded, almost ...

When it comes to brain health, the vagus nerve might not always be top of mind. But this mighty nerve serves an important function: It sends information between your brain and other vital organs ...