Dr. Justin Grant, DO, a fellowship-trained sports medicine provider at Colorado Advanced Orthopedics(CAO), is certified in nerve conduction study (NCS) and needle electromyography (EMG). NCS evaluates ...

When a person loses a leg above the knee, the nerves that once moved that leg don’t simply go quiet. They keep firing.

A research team led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has, for the first time, successfully ...

In A Nutshell For the first time in humans, scientists decoded intended movements across all three joints of a missing leg, ...

This week we are going to discuss a diagnostic test which is often ordered to differentiate between diseases of the nerve and muscle, as well as the nerve itself and the myelin sheath of the nerve. A ...

A study led by doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina and UMass Chan Medical School found that ultrasound-guided nerve blocks helped kids with broken thigh bones, also known as femurs, ...

Since 1995 I have had the interesting experience of working as a neurologist in a large state prison whose primary mission is to provide medical care to inmates. A large proportion of my practice ...

Correspondence to: Belgin Bamaç Department of Anatomy, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli 41900, Turkey; bbamac{at}hotmail.com Objectives: The influence of regular and intense practice of an asymmetric sport ...

Researchers have achieved patch-clamp studies of an elusive part of mammalian myelinated nerves called the Nodes of Ranvier. At the nodes, they found unexpected potassium channels that give the ...