For anyone who feels stiffness in their neck that radiates down to their arms with numbness or tingling or weakness in the ...

This review aims to examine the diagnostic accuracy of selective nerve root blocks (SNRBs) to identify patients most likely to benefit from lumbar decompression surgery. Design Systematic review of ...

The narrowing can be central stenosis (referring to the main channel) or it can be foraminal stenosis (referring to the “exit ramp” for each individual nerve root). The condition can occur in the ...

A pinched nerve in the neck, also known as cervical radiculopathy, can be alarming and painful. The neck, or cervical spine, is a critical part of the body that supports the head and facilitates a ...

suggesting possible nerve-root involvement. Electrodes fastened to the wrist and hands and small electric shocks sent to the forearm, wrist and finger to measure the speed of conduction through the ...

1 2 POCNES appears to be an intercostal nerve root disorder related to anterior CNES (ACNES) and lateral CNES (LACNES).1–4 There is both a limited awareness of and a lack of gold standard for ...

These lesions were detected readily by MRI and the patient underwent successful surgical resection of the largest tumours compressing bilateral C2 nerve roots. To our knowledge, this is the first ...