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What is a main cause of peripheral nerve and blood vessel damage that sometimes requires limb amputation?
Diabetes
List the reasons for performing a peripheral nerve functions assessment?
A peripheral nerve function test is performed to test the nerve function in the peripheral nerve. This test is often performed to when there is pain or weakness in the limbs.
What is the use of sorbitol?
Its a alcohol-derived sugar used to sooth pain resulting from damage to peripheral nerve, such as seen in diabetec neuropathy.
Does the peripheral nervous system have sensory nerve cells and motor nerve cells.?
Yes, the peripheral nervous system has both sensory and motor nerve cells
What is the medical term meaning Benign tumor of the peripheral nerve sheath?
A benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor is a schwannoma or neurofibroma.
Which doctors specialize in peripheral neuropathy and peripheral myopathy?
Neuropathy is a condition of the nerves that causes numbness, tingling, pain or pins and needles sensations in the hands, feet, arms or legs. It occurs differently for different people, but is always caused by nerve damage of some sort. All Neuropathy is damage to the nerves.Peripheral neuropathy is when the nerve damage in the peripheral nerves and not the central nervous sysstem.Neuropathy is caused by the breakdown of the myelin sheath around the nerves. Without this protection the electrical signals are not transferred properly just like if you stripped the covering off the electrical wires in you house.
Can neuropathy go to the brain?
Neuropathy can affect the brain. It can damage the cranial nerves that lead out of the brain. The cranial nerves, except for cranial nerve II which is the optic nerve, are a part of the peripheral nervous system.
Providing a pathway for the transmission of nerve impulses is the responsibility of the?
peripheral nerve system
Why a peripheral nerve such as the sciatic nerve can contain nerve fiber from several spinal nerves?
The reason why a peripheral nerve such as the sciatic nerve can contain nerve fiber from several spinal nerves is owing to nerve plexuses. These are networks of nerves all tangled together and found mostly in the limbs.
What is the cost of peripheral nerve surgery?
there is no such thing
What is the cause of itchy heels?
Itchy heels can be a symptom of a variety of diseases such as diabetes, eczema, peripheral nerve damage, athlete's foot, dermatitis, or a reaction to medication.
What fibers are the most rapid nerve impulses conducted on?
These are nerves in animals. They include central and peripheral; peripheral include somatic and autonomic.
