The patient, “Harry”, was a 77 year old Korean War Veteran who suffered from both pain and numbness on the top and bottom of both his feet. This was caused by nerve damage he had gotten from multiple episodes of frostbite during the war. He had been treated unsuccessfully using physical therapy and a number of pain relieving drugs including ones specifically used for nerve pain.

Dr. Christopher J. Winfree of The Center for Peripheral Nerve Surgery and his colleagues describe in a paper, soon to be published in the journal Neurosurgery, how the innovative use of ultrasound can guide surgeons in the placement of a pain relieving device for a patient with intractable foot pai...

A selective nerve root block (SNRB) is an injection that delivers medication into the space around spinal nerve roots. The goals of this tre...

Pediatric Neurological Surgery Center doctors Neil Feldstein, MD, Director, and Richard Anderson, MD, came back from a recent conference with potentially exciting news for some of our pediatric patients. There may be a new way to help people whose nerve damage has cost them control over...

The human nervous system consists of four parts: brain, spinal cord, autonomic nervous system, and peripheral nerves. Peripheral nerves are cord-like structures containing bundles of nerve fibers that carry information between various regions and the spinal cord. Some nerves, such as the sciatic...