Diabetic neuropathy occurs when high blood sugar levels damage small blood vessels and nerves, says Alexandra Adler, MD, pain ...

Peripheral neuropathy is the term for damage to nerves of the peripheral nervous ... i.e., large fiber or small fiber peripheral neuropathy. Frequently the cause of a neuropathy cannot be ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation, pain, and stiffness in the joints. But RA is a systemic disease — it affects the whole body — and can ...

Neuropathy, simply defined, is damage to nerves that often results from either disease or trauma. It is a relatively common condition that is not isolated to any particular part of the body. Although ...

This, in turn, has led to an increase in peripheral neuropathy - nerve damage, typically in the hands and feet - that causes weakness, loss of sensation and, in some, a stabbing, burning ...

“We could already quantify small sensory fibers using intra ... Figure 1: Assessing sweat gland nerve fiber density. The Neuropathy Impairment Score in the Lower Limb, a standard neuropathy ...

According to a case–control study published in Neurology, the expression of proinflammatory cytokines is elevated in the affected skin of patients with small-fiber neuropathy (SFN).