A small tube (the catheter) that is placed into the fatty space around the spinal cord. Various medications can then bathe the roots of the nerves as they come in or out of the spinal cord. Perhaps its most familiar use is treating the pain of labor.
Typically described in the thigh ( lateral femoral cutaneous nerve distribution), it is a tingling discomfort, with reduced sensation in the same area.
A neuropathy involving a single nerve.
Pain that follows the distribution of one or more nerves. An example of this is sciatica, where the pain is along the leg in areas supplied by that nerve and its branches.
An inflammation of the nerve(s). Without inflamation, you can't have neuritis.
Caused or maintained by dysfunction or injury in a nerve or nerves. If the dysfunction is short lived, this term may be used rather than neuropathic pain.
Pain caused or maintained by dysfunction or injury in the nerve(s).
A dysfunction in the nerve(s). This does not have to be painful. It may cause tingling or other sensations.
Detection of something which is potentially damaging to the body. It may not actually produce damage, but it it the 'sensory' aspect of pain.
A receptor that is normally sensitive to stimuli that is causing or may cause tissue injury.
A stimulus that may cause damage to tissue (like the heat from a fire). This is the normal stimulus for nociceptors.
|
We comply with the
HONcode standard for health trust
worthy information: verify here. |
