.: Nerve Conduction Top Related Articles
1). Cervical Radiculopathy: Diagnosing a Pinched Nerve in the Neck
When a nerve is pinched in the neck’s spinal column, pain can be such a prominent symptom that more subtle, but diagnostic, aspects are overlooked.
By way of background, the spinal cord in the neck is connected to the nerves of the arms through pairs of spinal nerves. These spinal nerves, also known as roots or “radicles,” transmit incoming messages (electrical impulses) from the arms’ nerves concerning sensations of touch, pain, heat and cold on various patches of skin.
Article tags: cervical, radiculopathy, root, pinch, disk, herniated, slipped, emg, mri, myelogram, electromyogram, nerve conduction, diagnosis, weakness, numbness
2). Guillain Barre Syndrome: When Legs (and more) Turn to Rubber
Looking on helplessly while a wave of weakness climbs one's body from the ankles upward can cause dismay. This is what happens in Guillain Barre (pronounced GHEE-on bah-RAY) syndrome, known more formally as acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Occurring in just one or two people per year in a population of 100,000, Guillain Barre syndrome makes up for its rarity by taking people by surprise and quickly disabling them.
Article tags: guillain barre, gbs, aidp, neuropathy, neuritis, autoimmune, nerve conduction, plasmapheresis, immunoglobulin, plasma exchange, csf, cerebrospinal fluid
3). Ulnar Neuropathy: Sane Treatment of a Crazy Bone
Do you remember what it felt like when you banged your elbow on a hard surface and it sent shocks through your forearm and into your little finger? Not too pleasant, to be sure. But on the plus side, the unpleasantness was merely temporary and, for the time being, you remembered not to do that again.
The part of the nervous system responsible for this annoying symptom is the ulnar nerve, a peripheral nerve-bundle whose individual nerve-fibers originate in the spinal cord where it passes through the neck.
Article tags: ulnar, nerve, neuropathy, elbow, diabetes, alcoholism, nerve conduction, polyneuropathy, anterior transposition, numb, weak, hand, pinched nerve
4). Thigh on Fire: Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Neuropathy
At the age of 32 Sigmund Freud developed a new problem. Pricking and other unpleasant sensations had overtaken the skin on the outer side of his right thigh. Walking made his symptoms worse. The affected skin was exquisitely sensitive to touch and even the usual rubbing of his underclothes irritated the area.
Seven years later in 1895, when Freud wrote up his self-observations for a German medical journal, the abnormal sensations were still present, but had migrated.
Article tags: lateral femoral cutaneous, neuropathy, meralgia, sigmund freud, thigh, numb, pregnancy, obesity, emg, electromyography, nerve conduction, entrapment, pinched nerve, diagnosis, treatment, spinal nerve, femoral