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Posted By Vernon B. Williams, MD
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30-May-2018
Neuropathy (also known as peripheral neuropathy) isn’t just one health condition, but rather a term used to describe a wide range of conditions involving disease and damage to peripheral nerves, and the symptoms that result from those conditions. The peripheral nervous system transmits messages between the central nervous system (your brain and spinal cord) and the rest of your body. ...
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Posted By Vernon B. Williams, MD
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22-May-2018
When quarterback Kurt Warner suffered a torn ligament in his left arm during the 2007 season, the Cardinals athletic training and medical staff rigged up a brace that allowed Warner to function and play the following week. But two years later, there wasn’t that much that same staff could do for Warner after he suffered a concussion against the Rams and missed the following week. The only ...
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Posted By Vernon B. Williams, MD
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17-May-2018
The wide variety of symptoms resulting from neuropathy (also known as peripheral neuropathy) reflect the fact that it can be caused by an equally wide range of conditions involving disease and damage to peripheral nerves. Although there’s a wide range of symptoms related to neuropathy, there are commonalities to the pain that people experience, notes says Vernon Williams, MD, a sports ...
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Posted By Vernon B. Williams, MD
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15-May-2018
Often when we think of pain it is the nociceptive kind, the acute pain that comes with injury or tissue damage caused by a specific event. Neuropathic pain, on the other hand, tends to be chronic and less sharp. “The character and quality of neuropathic pain tends to be pain that’s burning or electric in character,” says Vernon Williams, MD, a sports neurologist and the director ...
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Posted By Vernon B. Williams, MD
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14-May-2018
Polyneuropathy is the most common form of peripheral neuropathy, a condition involving damage to the peripheral nerves — which are outside the brain and spinal cord — and the symptoms that result from that damage. In this form of neuropathy, multiple nerves are affected, and frequently, nerves throughout the body will be affected simultaneously. The symptoms of neuropathic pain tend to ...
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