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Healthy Eating for PN with Chef Bill Nolan

Leave a Comment / Lifestyle, Living Well, News, Nutrition, Recipes, Tips / By Nancy Frohman

Healthy Eating for the Holidays Is it December already? What an extraordinary year we’ve had. I don’t know about you, but with the holidays upon us, it seems to me like people are really making an effort to enjoy the season. We’ve all needed something to look forward to, something to concentrate on besides the …

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Promoting Safety and Solutions

Leave a Comment / Lifestyle, Living Well, News, Tips / By Nancy Frohman

Peripheral Neuropathy and the Impact on Safety Peripheral Neuropathy can impact safety for patients due to the symptoms it causes. Sarah Boyd, PT, DPT and Sarah Dahlhauser, OTR/L, OTD share with the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy tips and suggestions for improving safety and comfort of patients with peripheral neuropathy. Why Peripheral Neuropathy can Impact Safety …

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Gene Therapy Blocks Peripheral Nerve Damage in Mice

Leave a Comment / News, Research, Research Studies / By Nancy Frohman

In a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, scientists have blocked the destruction of nerve axons in mice, a step toward helping patients with various neurodegenerative disorders, including peripheral neuropathy. The findings of this report, originally reported by Julia Evangelou Strait, can be found below. Nerve axons serve as the …

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Fibromyalgia: A Peripheral Pain Disorder?

News, Research, Small Fiber Neuropathy / By [email protected]

In a study published in the October issue of Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, researchers found that women with fibromyalgia exhibited corneal nerve atrophy consistent with neuropathic pain. The findings suggest that some patients with fibromyalgia may actually have small fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN). READ MORE Source: NeurologyAdvisor

Glossary of Terms

[printfriendly] A – Terms Acute pain Pain that comes on suddenly and often accompanies illness, inflammation, or injury to tissues. It can last from a few seconds to many weeks, but generally goes away over time. The cause of acute pain can usually be diagnosed and treated. Amino acid A building block of proteins. There …

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

A Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School The Center for Autonomic and Peripheral Nerve Disorders, Department of Neurology has distinguished research laboratories, clinical and translational research programs, diagnostic laboratories and clinics dedicated to patient care. The research and clinical interests of the Center are those disorders that affect the small nerve fibers, specifically, pain and …

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Nerve/Skin/Muscle Biopsy

[printfriendly] Biopsies are small samples of nerves, skin, muscle or other tissues that are taken from the body. The samples are examined to identify and diagnose various disorders. What is it? A biopsy is a minor surgical procedure which involves making a small incision to obtain a sample of nerve, skin, muscle or tissue for …

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Neuropathic Pain: 2009 Archive

Research / By Foundation for PN

The Sea Provides A New Hope of Relief A compound initially isolated from a soft coral (Capnella imbricata) collected at Green Island off Taiwan, could lead scientists to develop a new set of treatments for neuropathic pain – chronic pain that sometimes follows damage to the nervous system. Currently this form of pain is very …

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