Think of your nervous system as a road carrying electrical signals between your brain and body. When nerves are pressed or ...

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This layer also contains collagen-rich connective tissue and a network of blood vessels and nerves. Like the skin as a whole, the subcutaneous layer varies in thickness throughout the body.

Brachial plexus: A brachial plexus injury affects the network of nerves that start as nerve roots off of the lower neck and upper trunk sections of the spinal cord. These nerves carry movement and ...

Hand and Upper Extremity and Peripheral Nerve Surgeon. Upper East Side, Hudson Yards. Call 212.606.1730. View Profile. Aaron Daluiski, MD. ... In more serious cases, repair of critical blood vessels ...

Figure 1 Image from surgery, medial upper arm. A small fascicle of the ulnar nerve was intact (held aside with a white band), while the remainder of the nerve consisted of a neuroma-in-continuity. In ...

To attach the new tendon, holes are drilled in the two bones originally connected by the UCL: the upper arm bone (humerus) and the lower arm bone (ulna). Next, the graft tendon is threaded through ...

Meningitis: An inflammation of the tissue surrounding the brain and spine (the meninges), meningitis can become fatal if untreated. Often arising due to various pathogens, meningitis can also be ...

With the aid of a 3D printer, researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in creating a model that resembles human nerve ...