Neuropathy News
December 23, 2024
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Dec. 8, 2024 New research shows that adopting a healthy diet can reduce the severity of chronic pain, presenting an easy and accessible way for sufferers to better manage their ...
Dec. 5, 2024 Researchers have found a new receptor for nerve growth factor that plays an important role in pain signaling, even though it does not signal on its own, according to a new study. The findings hold ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Nov. 25, 2024 A wearable electrical nerve stimulation device can provide relief to people experiencing the persistent pain and fatigue linked to long COVID, according to new ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sep. 17, 2024 A recent study reveals that intensive diabetes treatment can improve periodontal disease inflammation. Researchers found that two weeks of intensive ...
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 ...
Aug. 29, 2024 Researchers describe the neural processes behind how morphine relieves pain. This is valuable knowledge because the drug has such serious side ...
Aug. 7, 2024 Pain management is a crucial part of the disease's care, but little is understood about how to manage it ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
July 8, 2024 Research found a self-guided smartphone-based behavioral therapy led to significant improvements for patients with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jan. 9, 2024 Chronic pain can present in multiple forms for multiple sclerosis patients. Some forms make it harder to stay active than ...
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 ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a new ...
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 ...
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 ...
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- Did You Know That Physical Activity Can Protect You from Chronic Pain?
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- Researchers Uncover Potential Non-Opioid Treatment for Chronic Pain
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- RSV Shown to Infect Nerve Cells, Cause Inflammation and Damage
- Different Pain Types in Multiple Sclerosis Can Cause Difficulty Staying Active
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- Genetic Therapy Corrects Progressive Muscle Disorder in Mice
- Students Engineer Socks for on-the-Go Neuropathy Treatment
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- Declines in Opioid Prescriptions for U.S. Patients With Cancer and Non-Cancer Pain, Study Shows
- Researcher Develops Algorithm to Track Mental States Through the Skin
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- Many Pain Medications Can Be Used for Spine-Related Pain in Older Adults
- Microfluidic-Based Soft Robotic Prosthetics Promise Relief for Diabetic Amputees
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- Neuronal Plasticity in Chronic Pain-Induced Anxiety Revealed
- How It Works: The Protein That Stimulates Muscle Growth
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- Scientists Pinpoint Genetic Target With Promise for Treating Many Forms of Blindness
- Scientists Think a Peptide Could Stop, Reverse Damage to Nerve Cells