The median nerve controls sensation in your thumb, index finger, middle finger, and half of your ring finger, while also providing motor function to several small muscles in your hand. When ...

A young woman developed slowly increasing atrophy and weakness of the small hand muscles, ... Delayed F-response with normal conduction velocities suggested a proximal abnormality near the nerve root.

Thumb numbness is a symptom often attributed to a "pinched nerve" of the hand, wrist, or spine. In addition, numbness may be due to a disease or medications that cause demyelination (destruction of ...

At some point, Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez will return from the injured list. But manager Joe Espada won’t be pinned to a timeline.

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The accessory nerve provides motor function (movement) to two muscles essential to neck and shoulder movement, the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) and the trapezius, as well as to the larynx (voice box) and ...

The peroneal nerve was silent during dorsiflexion, but was activated by stretch of the peroneal muscles during ankle extension. The responses of the two nerves behaved in a reciprocal manner, hut ...

There are two different muscles in the hand, extrinsic and intrinsic muscles. The extrinsic muscles are larger, originate in the forearm and insert down in the hand. The intrinsic muscles are smaller ...

Skeletal muscle mass is regulated by myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor‐β superfamily and a potent negative regulator of muscle growth. 6 Myostatin is upregulated in obesity and ...

Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is a painful disorder caused by pressure on the nerve roots of the lower back. The compression of these nerve roots limits normal function of the pelvic organs and lower ...

In the cervical spine, eight nerve roots branch out that primarily control the function of your shoulders, arms and hands. Symptoms of Cervical Myelopathy Cervical myelopathy produces two types of ...