An injury to the central nervous system can result in a permanent loss of the voluntary motor function and sensation. However, the peripheral motor and sensory nerves below the level of lesion often remain intact, and so do the muscles. Functional Electrical Stimulation (PES) is a technique to restore motor and sensory functions after such injuries. The forces generated in muscles activated by ...

The peripheral nervous system has the intrinsic capacity to regenerate axons into target tissues, and peripheral nerves severely damaged or transected can be reconstructed by microsurgical techniques. The aim of peripheral nerve surgery is to pave way for fast and most possible thorough functional recovery. However, full functional recovery is rarely seen and several reasons for this have alrea...

Peripheral nerve stimulation and, recently, peripheral nerve field stimulation are excellent options for the control of extremity pain in instances where conventional methods have failed and surgical treatment is ruled inappropriate. New techniques, ultrasound guidance, smaller generators, and task-specific neuromodulatory hardware and leads result in increasingly safe, stable and efficacious t...

conclusions obtained results demonstrate significant differences between intraneural and perineural injection pressures in the median, ulnar, and radial nerves. intraneural injection pressures show low specificity but high sensitivity suggesting that pressure monitoring might be a valuable tool in improving the safety and efficacy of peripheral nerve blockade in regional anesthesia. peripheral ...

despite promising results observed using silicone rubber chamber, no previous comprehensive work was performed on behavior of the conduit. present study aimed at further functional, histomorphometrical and immunohistochemical assessment of nerve regeneration in the same animal along a 10-mm rat sciatic nerve gap. fifty- four male wistar rats were divided into three experimental groups (n = 18),...

malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (mpnst) is a rare nerve sheath tumor derived from schwann cells or pleuripotent cells of neural crest. neurogenic tumors make about 10-20% of all mediastinal tumors. incidence of mpnst is 0.001% in general population and 0.16% in patients with neurofibromatosis i (nf i). we report a case of 60 year female presenting with progressive cough and breathlessne...

thyroid hoemones effect gastric acid and pepsin secretion.however exact machanism(s) are not clear.this study was performed to compare the effect of vagal stimulation on acid an pepsin secretion in hypothyroid,hyperthyroid and control rars.each group consisted of 8 male and female rats(N-mari) weighing 246+_9 gr.hypo and hyperthyroid states were induced by administretion of methimazol (50mg/l i...

The field of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) is now experiencing a phase of rapid growth in number of patients, number of implanters, number of indications, and procedure types. This, however, appears to be only a beginning of major developments that could revolutionize the field of PNS. It is expected that the progress in PNS will continue simultaneously in several directions as new indicat...