Neuropathy News

November 20, 2024

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A New Discovery About Pain Signaling May Contribute to Better Treatment of Chronic Pain

Nov. 18, 2024 — When pain signals are passed along the nervous system, proteins called calcium channels play a key role. Researchers have now pinpointed the exact location of a specific calcium channel fine-tuning ...

For Heavy Drinkers, Chronic Pain Associated With Alcohol Withdrawal Could Be Permanent

Oct. 17, 2024 — One of the main physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is 'allodynia' -- increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli that are normally innocuous, which is a clinical sign of chronic pain. In a new ...

Glowing Approach Could Aid Carpal Tunnel-Related Surgery

Oct. 10, 2024 — A team found fluorescein angiography useful for visualizing and assessing neural blood flow in severely damaged nerves during open carpal tunnel release ...

Getting to the Root of the Problem: Intensive Diabetes Treatment Reduces Gum Disease Inflammation

Sep. 17, 2024 — A recent study reveals that intensive diabetes treatment can improve periodontal disease inflammation. Researchers found that two weeks of intensive diabetes treatment under hospitalization for ...

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Gene Named for Mythical Irish Land Could Aid Muscle Function After Traumatic Nerve Injuries

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers describe how a gene called NANOG can improve the regrowth of damaged nerves after traumatic nerve injuries, like those sustained in motor ...

Anxiety and Depression Linked to Chronic Pain in Children

Sep. 9, 2024 — Young people with chronic pain are three times more likely than their peers to also have clinical anxiety or depression, a new review has ...

Mechanisms of How Morphine Relieves Pain Mapped out

Aug. 29, 2024 — Researchers describe the neural processes behind how morphine relieves pain. This is valuable knowledge because the drug has such serious side ...

Better Understanding Cerebral Palsy Pain Types Could Lead to Better Treatment

Aug. 7, 2024 — Pain management is a crucial part of the disease's care, but little is understood about how to manage it ...

Unraveling a Key Junction Underlying Muscle Contraction

July 31, 2024 — Using powerful new visualization technologies, researchers have captured the first 3-D images of the structure of a key muscle receptor, providing new insights on how muscles develop across the ...

Designing Safer Opioids

July 17, 2024 — Opioid medications offer people relief from debilitating pain, but these drugs come with dangers: the risk for addiction, miserable withdrawal symptoms and the potential for fatal overdose. ...

New Target in Critical Pain-Regulating Brain Region

July 11, 2024 — A new study has found that prolonged nerve injury (in an experimental model of chronic pain) reduces the expression of the transcription factor, Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2C (MEF2C) in the nucleus ...

Mobile App Therapy Leads to Significant Improvement in Fibromyalgia Management

July 8, 2024 — Research found a self-guided smartphone-based behavioral therapy led to significant improvements for patients with ...

Nerve Damage from Breast Cancer Treatment Can Be Predicted

July 9, 2024 — Many women treated for breast cancer using taxanes, a type of cytostatic drug, often experience side effects in the nervous system. Researchers have developed a tool that can predict the risk level ...

Brain Fluid Dynamics Key to Migraine Mysteries, New Therapies

July 4, 2024 — New research details the connection between the neurological symptoms associated with aura and the migraine that follows. The study also identifies new proteins that could be responsible for ...

Defining Chronic Pain for High-Performance Athletes With Disabilities

Aug. 27, 2024 — The extensive training and the sacrifices athletes make to compete at the Olympic games take center stage. For Paralympians and high-performance athletes with spinal cord injuries (SCI), assessing ...

Physical Exercise Prevents Nerve Damage During Chemotherapy

July 1, 2024 — Cancer treatments often cause nerve damage that can lead to long-lasting symptoms. Medication has proven ineffective in these cases. A sports scientist together with an interdisciplinary team from ...

Study Examines Prescribing Patterns of Drug Associated With Cognitive Impairment

May 30, 2024 — A new study is one of the first explorations of prescribing patterns of tricyclic antidepressants for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy at healthcare facilities predominantly serving ...

Neuropathy Very Common, Underdiagnosed

May 8, 2024 — Neuropathy, the nerve damage that causes pain and numbness in the feet and hands and can eventually lead to falls, infection and even amputation, is very common and underdiagnosed, according to a new ...

Did You Know That Physical Activity Can Protect You from Chronic Pain?

Mar. 27, 2024 — Reserachers found that people who were more active in their free time had a lower chance of having various types of chronic pain 7-8 years later. For example, being just a little more active, such as ...

Discovery Has Potential to Solve the Billion-Dollar Global Cost of Poorly Managed Wound Healing

Mar. 27, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered a key step in the wound healing process that becomes disabled in diseases like diabetes and aging, contributing to a global healthcare cost of managing poorly healing wounds ...

An Overgrowth of Nerve Cells Appears to Cause Lingering Symptoms After Recurrent UTIs

Mar. 2, 2024 — A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain, even after antibiotics have successfully cleared the bacteria. Now researchers have identified the ...

Researchers Uncover Potential Non-Opioid Treatment for Chronic Pain

Jan. 31, 2024 — A new approach to treating neuropathic pain is making a key step forward. Neuropathic pain is among the most difficult types of pain to alleviate and current treatments are often ineffective. ...

Firing Nerve Fibers in the Brain Are Supplied With Energy on Demand

Jan. 31, 2024 — To rapidly transmit electrical signals in the brain, the long nerve fibers are insulated by specialized cells called oligodendrocytes. These cells also respond to the electrical signals of active ...

Good and Bad News for People With Low Back Pain

Jan. 22, 2024 — Low back pain is a major cause of disability around the globe, with more than 570 million people affected. New research shows that many people with persistent low back pain (more than 12 weeks) ...

Clarifying the Cause of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Jan. 19, 2024 — Guillain-?Barr Syndrome is a rare condition in which a person's immune system attacks the peripheral nerves. People affected suffer from muscle weakness and paralysis. A research team led by ETH ...

RSV Shown to Infect Nerve Cells, Cause Inflammation and Damage

Jan. 9, 2024 — RSV, a common infection in children and the elderly thought to only infect the respiratory tract, can also infect nerve cells and cause nerve damage, according to a new study. The findings could have ...

Different Pain Types in Multiple Sclerosis Can Cause Difficulty Staying Active

Jan. 9, 2024 — Chronic pain can present in multiple forms for multiple sclerosis patients. Some forms make it harder to stay active than ...

Lost Brain Function Restored in Mice After Stroke

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke recovery ...

Common Headaches Tied to Neck Inflammation

Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a new ...

Fat Cells Help Repair Damaged Nerves

Nov. 28, 2023 — Damage to the body's peripheral nerves can cause pain and movement disorders. Researchers have recently investigated how damaged nerves can regenerate better. They found that fat tissue strongly ...

Repairing Nerve Cells After Injury and in Chronic Disease

Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers discovered a mechanism for repairing damaged nerves during peripheral neuropathy in mice, wherein the protein Mitf orchestrates nerve repair after both trauma-induced and chronic nerve ...

Getting to the Root of Visceral Gut Pain

Nov. 21, 2023 — Researchers have uncovered a reason that may explain why visceral pain is so common in conditions like irritable bowel syndrome. This understanding could inspire new and better ways to alleviate that ...

New Compound Outperforms Pain Drug by Indirectly Targeting Calcium Channels

Nov. 13, 2023 — A compound -- one of 27 million screened in a library of potential new drugs -- reversed four types of chronic pain in animal studies, according to new research. The small molecule, which binds to an ...

Disturbances in Sensory Neurons May Alter Transient Pain Into Chronic Pain

Nov. 8, 2023 — Researchers have identified that a transient inflammatory pain causes mitochondrial and redox changes in sensory neurons that persist beyond pain resolution. These changes appear to predispose to a ...