Peripheral neuropathy can be a symptom of chronic Lyme disease, causing burning, tingling, and numbness in extremities ...

DuBois, PA / / September 16, 2025 / Highroad Enterprises Key Takeaways: StemWave acoustic wave therapy is now available in ...

A research team from the University of Cologne has shown how zebrafish can rebuild their nerve pathways and restore their ...

Nerve damage is no joke. Even something as simple as typing too much can lead to bolts of pain shooting up your arm. The damage from an accident or injury can be even more traumatic. Doctors have ...

Nerve cells in the skin help wounds to heal. When an injury occurs, cells known as glial cells change into repair cells and disseminate into the wound, where they help the skin to regenerate, ...

PHILADELPHIA - For years, scientists have been trying to make injured spinal cords grow back, with limited success. Lying awake in bed one night, neurobiologist Douglas H. Smith came up with an ...

A chemical that spurs growth of nerve cells during fetal development may provide a new way to treat severe chronic pain that results from nerve damage, according to a study of rodents. “Is this a ...

Schwann cells are known to protect and repair nerve cells. Until now, however, it was not known that they themselves take over functions of certain immune cells during nerve healing. For example, they ...

A new study conducted by Weizmann Institute scientists has now uncovered a key process leading to the regeneration of peripheral nerves. Nerves in the peripheral nervous system (any part of the body ...

Damaged fibers in the brain or spinal cord usually don't heal. Neuroscientists have high hopes for new methods based on gene therapy. Typically, damaged nerve fibres of the central nervous system (CNS ...

Sticks and stones may break one's bones, but healing them requires the production of a protein signal that stimulates the generation, growth and spread of vital nerve cells, or neurons, throughout the ...