Paralysis of the facial nerve may arise due to infection, inflammation, surgery, trauma, and tumors. Damage to this nerve, which is the seventh cranial nerve, may be uni- or bilateral. It results in ...

Optic nerve sheath decompression (ONSD) maintains a role in the management of visual loss complicating papilloedema in selected patients primarily with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. The ...

(HealthDay)—For patients with painful diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN), surgical decompression of the tibial nerve has no effect on the mean cross-sectional area of the nerve, according to a study ...

Adding operative nerve decompression to usual foot-ulcer treatment in patients with diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSP) significantly reduces ulcer recurrence compared with patients' own ...

A rat study shows shear wave elastography detects falling nerve stiffness weeks before conduction tests or histology reveal ...

Surgical nerve decompression, used to treat conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome and sciatica, could play a role in relieving the pain of diabetic neuropathy patients, researchers at UT ...

Decompression of the tibial nerve did not reduce its mean cross-sectional area (CSA) in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy, a new prospective randomized trial finds. The study, which ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence and severity of delayed-onset ulnar neuritis was reduced in patients who underwent elbow ...

Pune: Suraj (name changed), a teacher in rural Maharashtra, would stop mid-sentence, clutch his face and hide tears. Seeing their teacher struggle, students would cry for him. Between attacks, he ...

Fibrous dysplasia of bone frequently involves the anterior base of the cranium and results in encasement of the optic-nerve canals. It has been assumed that such encasement leads to constriction and ...