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Peripheral Nerve Disorders

What are peripheral nerves?

Nerves are like wires that carry messages back and forth between your brain and your body. Your peripheral nerves branch off from your brain and spinal cord and connect to all parts of your body, including your muscles and organs. Peripheral nerves carry messages from your brain that control your movement, breathing, heartbeat, digestion, and more. They also carry messages from your body to your brain, so you can feel things, such as pain, heat, and cold.

What are peripheral nerve disorders?

Peripheral nerve disorders happen when one or more peripheral nerves are damaged. Damaged nerves may not carry messages correctly, or they may not work at all. As a result, you may have pain, trouble walking, or a variety of other problems, depending on which nerves are involved.

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  1. Peripheral Nerve Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    What are peripheral nerves? Nerves are like wires that carry messages back and forth between your brain and your body. Your peripheral nerves branch off from your brain and spinal cord ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/peripheralnervedisorders.html - Health Topics
  2. Peripheral neuropathy 
    Peripheral nerves carry information to and from the brain. They also carry signals to and from the spinal ... Katirji B. Disorders of peripheral nerves. In: Jankovic J, ... Daroff's Neurology in Clinical Practice . 8th ed. Philadelphia, ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000593.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... 1 in 2,500 people. CMT affects your peripheral nerves. Peripheral nerves carry movement and sensation signals between the brain ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/charcotmarietoothdisease.html - Health Topics
  4. ClinicalTrials.gov: Peripheral Nerve Injuries From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Peripheral Nerve Disorders/Clinical Trials ... Peripheral Nerve Disorders
    https://clinicaltrials.gov/...ve+Injuries"&aggFilters=status:not rec - External Health Links
  5. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 
    ... hereditary sensory and motor neuropathies that damage the peripheral nerves. Peripheral nerves connect the brain and spinal cord to muscles ... touch, pain, heat, and sound. Damage to the peripheral nerves that worsens over time can result in alteration ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/.../condition/charcot-marie-tooth-disease - Genetics
  6. Autosomal recessive axonal neuropathy with neuromyotonia 
    ... with neuromyotonia is a disorder that affects the peripheral nerves. Peripheral nerves connect the brain and spinal cord to muscles ... caused by damage to a particular part of peripheral nerves called axons, which are the extensions of nerve ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/...sive-axonal-neuropathy-with-neuromyotonia - Genetics
  7. Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies 
    ... to pressure palsies is a disorder that affects peripheral nerves. These nerves connect the brain and spinal cord ... and temperature. In people with this disorder, the peripheral nerves are unusually sensitive to pressure, such as the ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/...opathy-with-liability-to-pressure-palsies - Genetics
  8. Tarsal tunnel syndrome 
    Katirji B. Disorders of peripheral nerves. In: Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, Pomeroy SL, Newman NJ, eds. Bradley and Daroff's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 8th ed. Philadelphia, ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000792.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  9. SCN10A gene 
    ... channel lead to heart block. hPN3 Nav1.8 peripheral nerve sodium channel 3 PN3 SCNAA_HUMAN sodium channel ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/scn10a - Genetics
  10. Stages of Childhood Soft Tissue Sarcoma From the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute)  
    Soft Tissue Sarcoma/Diagnosis and Tests ... Soft Tissue Sarcoma ... National Cancer Institute ... From the National Institutes of Health ... Childhood soft tissue sarcoma ...
    https://www.cancer.gov/.../child-soft-tissue-treatment-pdq#_26 - External Health Links
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