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 ...

A 21 year old woman sustained a "thrower’s fracture" of the distal humerus and radial nerve palsy while throwing a softball. She was treated by internal fixation. Her fracture united, and radial nerve ...

In contrast, sciatic nerve palsy, presenting as equinovarus or equinus deformity, was diagnosed on average 3.8 months after the intragluteal injections (Napiontek & Ruszkowski, 1993). Cavovarus ...

can characterise a disc at risk and predict the occurrence of non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (NAION). Methods Blood flow, volume and velocity were measured in the optic nerve ...

Background Finger extension weakness could be a presentation of either posterior interosseous nerve (PIN) syndrome or multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). However, there is a delay in the diagnosis of ...

Bell’s palsy is a disorder of the facial nerve, which causes paralysis on one side of the face and possibly loss of taste sensation. The vestibulocochlear nerve helps with a person’s hearing ...

The findings were consistent with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy with pupil involvement ... as well as a proximal aneurysm in the right anterior cerebral artery. These were considered to be ...

Physical problems. Injuries, nerve compression, pain after amputation, facial nerve pain (neuralgia), pain after a mastectomy, failed back surgery syndrome, and compression of nerve roots in the ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is defined as any condition in the brain that ... activity at the neuromuscular junction to ‘turn off’ some of the signal moving from nerve to muscle,” says Dara Jones, MD, ...

The pronator teres muscle (PTM), flexor carpi radialis (FCR), palmaris longus (PL), and the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) received exclusive innervation from the median nerve in all forearms.