The treatment, known as a femoral nerve block, acts as a local anaesthetic and can serve as an alternative to opioid painkillers.

A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells — and this may point to a new way of treating nerve pain. When you purchase through links on our ...

If you have yet to experience back pain, the odds are sadly stacked against you. According to World Health Organization data, most people will experience low back pain at some point in their lives.

It’s the leading cause of disability and one of the most costly health challenges of our time: chronic lower back pain. Yet effective and safe treatments are few and far between, leading patients to ...

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Peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) are an established technique providing localized pain relief in surgical and post- operative settings. By precisely delivering anesthetic near a target nerve, nerve ...

Objective To investigate the use of infiltration and nerve block in shoulder pain treatment by shoulder surgery specialists and compared the results with previous research conducted by our group in ...

Adding guanfacine to a lidocaine trigeminal nerve block provides a short-term reduction in pain over the first 8 hours post-injection, but it does not significantly prolong the time until the ...

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy, a condition in which diabetes mellitus damages nerves in the body, leading to chronic pain, affects roughly 37 million people in the United States and 460 million ...

Julie Vignato received funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is a member and Leadership Scholar with the United States Association for the Study of Pain. About half to three-quarters of ...