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$3.3M Settlement for Patient Who Had 11 Unnecessary Operations
A woman who was left disfigured after 11 unnecessary operations on her leg has agreed to a $3.36 million settlement of her ...
Healthline24d
Who Should Consider Getting Peroneal Tendon Surgery?
Peroneal tendon surgery is considered effective with a low risk of serious side effects if recommended by a doctor for those who are generally healthy. Peroneal tendon surgery is a procedure to ...
Clinical Pain Advisor10d
Peripheral Nerve Blocks Unlikely to Reduce Chronic Opioid Dependence After TKA
Researchers assessed the relationship between peripheral nerve blocks and chronic opioid dependence and use following total ...
Rolling Out26d
Common causes of partial paralysis you should know
These injuries frequently affect specific movement patterns corresponding to the damaged nerve’s territory. For example, radial nerve injury typically causes wrist drop, while peroneal nerve ...
Everyday Health29d
What Is Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)?
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS ... and the stimulation can help change or block pain signals going to the brain. There’s also evidence that TENS can trigger the release ...
Hosted on MSN24d
Spokane greenlights block party program before drafting rules and procedures
(The Center Square) – Delivering on Mayor Lisa Brown’s agenda, the Spokane City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on Monday creating a neighborhood block party program. Last month ...
IEEE23d
High Frequency Mammalian Nerve Conduction Block: Simulations and Experiments
Abstract: High frequency alternating current (HFAC) sinusoidal waveforms can block conduction in mammalian peripheral nerves. A nerve simulation software package was used to simulate HFAC conduction ...
The Center Square25d
Spokane greenlights block party program before drafting rules and procedures
(The Center Square) – Delivering on Mayor Lisa Brown’s agenda, the Spokane City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on Monday creating a neighborhood block party program ... “develop program ...
SciELO6d
Effect of electrical stimulation of the cranial tibial muscle after end-to-side neurorrhaphy of the peroneal nerve in rats
The sciatic nerve, common peroneal, tibial and sural nerve were dissected. Thereafter, the procedure was performed according to the experimental group (Figure 2). The surgeries were performed with the ...
IEEE19d
Nerve cuff recordings of muscle afferent activity from tibial and peroneal nerves in rabbit during passive ankle motion
Dorsiflexion stretched the ankle extensors and produced velocity dependent activity in the tibial nerve, and this diminished to a tonic level during the stimulus plateau. The peroneal nerve was silent ...
BMJ5d
Suprascapular nerve block in chronic shoulder pain: are the radiologists better?
Objective: To compare a CT guided versus an anatomical landmark approach in a randomised, single blind trial examining the efficacy of suprascapular nerve block for shoulder pain in patients with ...