What Is Multifocal Motor Neuropathy? Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is a rare disease that causes slowly worsening muscle weakness, mainly in your hands, arms, and legs. It affects your body's ...

Come summer, we will once again marvel at the amazing athletic skills of Olympic athletes while in fact, the simple act of walking is no less remarkable. Just to prevent us from toppling over, the ...

Our bodies’ nerve cells are important for transmitting electrical and chemical information between different parts of the brain and between the brain and other parts of the nervous system. One of the ...

A new way to artificially control muscles using light, with the potential to restore function to muscles paralyzed by conditions such as motor neuron disease and spinal cord injury, has been developed ...

The disease 5q-spinal muscular atrophy (5q-SMA) is one of the more common types of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) affecting around 1 in 10,000 individuals worldwide. Currently, tests are unable to ...

Footballer Ezekiel Otuoma and his wife Rachael Otuoma. Otuoma died after a long battle with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). [File, Standard] Former AFC Leopards winger Ezekiel Otuoma passed away at the ...

New research from the MIROCALS (Modifying Immune Responses and Outcomes in ALS) clinical trial has found that low-dose interleukin-2 (IL2 LD) is both safe and effective for use on people with Motor ...

Department of Physical Therapy, Aomori University of health and welfare, 58-1 Hamadate Mase, Aomori-shi, Aomori, 030-8505, Japan Background In sports, warm-up is used for injury prevention and ...

Compression or ‘pinching’ of one of the main arm nerves can cause tingling, numbness, and nerve pain in the arm. Physical therapy, medications, and surgery can treat pinched nerves. A pinched nerve ...

The hypoglossal nerve is one of the 12 cranial nerves arising from the brain. It's a paired nerve, and you have two — left and right. Together, the two hypoglossal nerves control the muscles of the ...