Neuropathy News

April 23, 2024

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Did You Know That Physical Activity Can Protect You from Chronic Pain?

Mar. 27, 2024 — Reserachers found that people who were more active in their free time had a lower chance of having various types of chronic pain 7-8 years later. For example, being just a little more active, such as going from light to moderate activity, was ...

Discovery Has Potential to Solve the Billion-Dollar Global Cost of Poorly Managed Wound Healing

Mar. 27, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered a key step in the wound healing process that becomes disabled in diseases like diabetes and aging, contributing to a global healthcare cost of managing poorly healing wounds ...

An Overgrowth of Nerve Cells Appears to Cause Lingering Symptoms After Recurrent UTIs

Mar. 2, 2024 — A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain, even after antibiotics have successfully cleared the bacteria. Now researchers have identified the ...

Researchers Uncover Potential Non-Opioid Treatment for Chronic Pain

Jan. 31, 2024 — A new approach to treating neuropathic pain is making a key step forward. Neuropathic pain is among the most difficult types of pain to alleviate and current treatments are often ineffective. Researchers have identified a potential non-opioid ...

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Firing Nerve Fibers in the Brain Are Supplied With Energy on Demand

Jan. 31, 2024 — To rapidly transmit electrical signals in the brain, the long nerve fibers are insulated by specialized cells called oligodendrocytes. These cells also respond to the electrical signals of active ...

Good and Bad News for People With Low Back Pain

Jan. 22, 2024 — Low back pain is a major cause of disability around the globe, with more than 570 million people affected. New research shows that many people with persistent low back pain (more than 12 weeks) ...

RSV Shown to Infect Nerve Cells, Cause Inflammation and Damage

Jan. 9, 2024 — RSV, a common infection in children and the elderly thought to only infect the respiratory tract, can also infect nerve cells and cause nerve damage, according to a new study. The findings could have ...

Different Pain Types in Multiple Sclerosis Can Cause Difficulty Staying Active

Jan. 9, 2024 — Chronic pain can present in multiple forms for multiple sclerosis patients. Some forms make it harder to stay active than ...

Lost Brain Function Restored in Mice After Stroke

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke recovery ...

Common Headaches Tied to Neck Inflammation

Nov. 29, 2023 — Researchers have identified objective evidence of how the neck muscles are involved in primary headaches, according to a new ...

Fat Cells Help Repair Damaged Nerves

Nov. 28, 2023 — Damage to the body's peripheral nerves can cause pain and movement disorders. Researchers have recently investigated how damaged nerves can regenerate better. They found that fat tissue strongly ...

Repairing Nerve Cells After Injury and in Chronic Disease

Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers discovered a mechanism for repairing damaged nerves during peripheral neuropathy in mice, wherein the protein Mitf orchestrates nerve repair after both trauma-induced and chronic nerve ...

Getting to the Root of Visceral Gut Pain

Nov. 21, 2023 — Researchers have uncovered a reason that may explain why visceral pain is so common in conditions like irritable bowel syndrome. This understanding could inspire new and better ways to alleviate that ...

New Compound Outperforms Pain Drug by Indirectly Targeting Calcium Channels

Nov. 13, 2023 — A compound -- one of 27 million screened in a library of potential new drugs -- reversed four types of chronic pain in animal studies, according to new research. The small molecule, which binds to an ...

Clarifying the Cause of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Jan. 19, 2024 — Guillain-?Barr Syndrome is a rare condition in which a person's immune system attacks the peripheral nerves. People affected suffer from muscle weakness and paralysis. A research team led by ETH ...

Disturbances in Sensory Neurons May Alter Transient Pain Into Chronic Pain

Nov. 8, 2023 — Researchers have identified that a transient inflammatory pain causes mitochondrial and redox changes in sensory neurons that persist beyond pain resolution. These changes appear to predispose to a ...

Lab Unlocks Keys to Alcohol Withdrawal Headache

Oct. 30, 2023 — Researchers have discovered mechanisms by which specific cells are activated in alcohol withdrawal-induced headache. The research may benefit further studies of various substance use disorder ...

New Study Provides Evidence for More Effective Brain-Based Treatment of Chronic Back Pain

Sep. 28, 2023 — A new study may provide key answers to how to help people experiencing chronic back pain. The study examined the critical connection between the brain and pain for treating chronic pain. ...

Researchers 'Bioprint' Living Brain Cell Networks in the Lab

Sep. 19, 2023 — Researchers have successfully used 'bioinks' containing living nerve cells (neurons) to print 3D nerve networks that can grow in the laboratory and transmit and respond to nerve ...

Scrambler Therapy May Offer Lasting Relief for Chronic Pain, Review Paper Suggests

July 31, 2023 — Pain experts suggest that scrambler therapy, a noninvasive pain treatment, can yield significant relief for approximately 80% -- 90% of patients with chronic pain, and it may be more effective than ...

Gene Therapy Treats Chronic Pain by Dialing Down Sodium

July 27, 2023 — Scientists identified the region where a protein regulates sodium ion channels, inserting the channel's genetic material into a virus to alleviate pain in cell and animal ...

Researchers Use the Antidepressant Tianeptine to Manage Chronic Pain

July 24, 2023 — Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition estimated to affect as much as 10% of the global population. It results from a damaged or malfunctioning nervous system, stemming from diseases like ...

Body's Immune Response May Offer Alternative Approach to Neuropathic Pain Therapies

June 27, 2023 — In the midst of a global opioid epidemic, a team of scientists is exploring natural killer (NK) cells as an alternative treatment for neuropathic pain. Researchers gather existing evidence for the ...

Pregnancy Hormone Repairs Myelin Damage in MS Mouse Model

June 15, 2023 — A new study has identified a treatment that could repair myelin in the cortex, undoing some of the damage caused by ...

New Chemical Compound Demonstrates Potential in Nerve Regeneration

May 24, 2023 — Recent research has identified a new compound that can stimulate nerve regeneration after injury, as well as protect cardiac tissue from the sort of damage seen in heart ...

Neuropathic Pain: The Underlying Mechanism and a Potential Therapeutic Target Are Revealed in Mice

May 4, 2023 — Neuropathic pain -- abnormal hypersensitivity to stimuli -- is associated with impaired quality of life and is often poorly managed. Estimates suggest that 3 percent to 17 percent of adults suffer ...

How Alcohol Consumption Contributes to Chronic Pain

Apr. 21, 2023 — A team showed how both alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal can lead to increased pain and ...

Genetic Therapy Corrects Progressive Muscle Disorder in Mice

Apr. 13, 2023 — Investigators recently used a targeted drug to restore muscle strength and correct myotonia in mice with myotonic ...

Students Engineer Socks for on-the-Go Neuropathy Treatment

Apr. 13, 2023 — A wearable electrical-stimulation and vibration-therapy system designed by engineering students might be just what the doctor ordered for people experiencing foot pain and balance loss due to ...

Bariatric Surgery May Reverse Diabetes Complications for People With Obesity

Apr. 10, 2023 — For more than 100 million Americans who are obese, bariatric surgery may reverse complications related to diabetes, including regenerating damaged nerves, a new study shows. Researchers say the ...

Fibromyalgia: Pain out of Control

Apr. 5, 2023 — Feeling like we have a degree of control makes us tolerate pain better. In the case of fibromyalgia, however, this simply doesn't work. A study provides clues as to ...

Spinal Cord Stimulation Doesn't Help With Back Pain, Says New Review

Mar. 8, 2023 — People with chronic back pain may turn to spinal cord stimulation to ease their pain, but a Cochrane Review found no sustained benefits to the surgery that outweigh the costs and ...

Antidepressants Used for Chronic Pain on the Rise, but Are They Effective?

Feb. 1, 2023 — New research has found some antidepressants may be effective in treating certain chronic pain conditions, but others lack convincing evidence on their ...

Supplementation With Amino Acid Serine Eases Neuropathy in Diabetic Mice

Jan. 25, 2023 — The study adds to growing evidence that some often-underappreciated, 'non-essential' amino acids play important roles in the nervous system. The findings may provide a new way to identify ...