Diseases of the nervous system (302 contents)
Disorders involving nerves, spinal nerve roots and nerve plexuses (12 contents)
Trigeminal nerve: a cranial nerve whose dysfunction can result in severe pain
The trigeminal nerve is one of the 12 cranial nerves and also the largest of them. It is responsible for making us feel the various stimuli in our face, and it also innervates the numerous muscles...
Paresthesias - what is it and when should it be of concern?
Paresthesias are feelings of numbness, tingling in the skin of an area of the body. They can be an innocent, completely and spontaneously regressing condition resulting from pressure on a peripheral...
Hemiplegic neuralgia - what is it?
Everyone has probably heard of hemiplegia, but not many people know about the condition called hemiplegic neuralgia. What are its causes? How can it be effectively treated?
Laser therapy for the treatment of pain
An innovative method of treating pain that has been highly effective for a long time now - is laser therapy. The procedure of this form of therapy is based not only on the analgesic, but also...
Neuralgia, neuralgia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Neuralgia, is very often referred to as ne uralgia and is pain within a particular area of the body, mucous membrane or muscle innervated by one nerve. Many people refer to it as a "revolt of the...
Neurovascular-neural conflict in neurology
Neurovascular conflict is defined as compression of a nerve by a blood vessel. Most often the vessel causing the nerve irritation is an artery running in close proximity to the nerve, less often a...
Facial tingling - what are the most common causes?
A relatively common complaint that patients present to their GP or neurologist is that they experience an unpleasant sensation described as facial tingling. This abnormal, spontaneous sensation can...
Phantom pains
We define phantom pain as that which is felt at the site of an amputated body part, (e.g. a lower or upper limb) but also that pain which occurs suddenly at a site that has not been mechanically...
Nonspecific cervical spine pain
Over the course of a lifetime, approximately two-thirds of the population experience cervical spine pain. It is the second most common osteoarticular symptom recorded in GP practices, after lumbar...
