Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer. If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she ...

What Is the Occipital Nerve? The occipital nerve is actually a group of nerves that give you feeling in your scalp. They branch off from larger nerves in your spinal cord. There are three kinds of ...

Dear Doctors: I’m having radial nerve problems whenever I use my triceps, like pushing the lawn mower, opening doors or pushing up from the recliner. It’s making my thumb and pointer finger very weak.

A pinched nerve occurs when there is pressure or force on an area of a nerve, causing it to send pain signals to the brain. Most instances are mild, and a person can often treat them at home. This ...

The following is a summary of “Complications of Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” published in the February 2025 issue of ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. – The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Organ Support and Automation Technologies team is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory to ...

How Does a Hypogastric Plexus Block Work? The hypogastric plexus is made up of various nerves positioned at your fifth lumbar and first sacral vertebrae in your spine. It is found on the lower part of ...

The following is a summary of “Safety and Pain Reduction in Emergency Practitioner Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks: A One-Year Retrospective Study,” published in the January 2024 issue of Emergency ...

1. In emergency patients with hip fracture and severe pain, patients randomize to receive early ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block (FNB) were observed with reduced preoperative opioid consumption ...

Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks performed by emergency practitioners are safe and effective for acute pain management and could form a crucial part of multimodal pain management in the emergency ...