Those Extra Pounds Lower your Testosterone Carrying around extra weight directly affects the amount of testosterone in your body, and can even suppress your body’s ability to manufacture this important hormone. Fat cells contain an enzyme called aromatase. Aromatase works by converting androgens, such as testosterone, to a type of estrogen derivative called estradiol. Once […]
Pneumonia Risk Elevated After Spinal Cord Injury
Aspiration pneumonia is a dangerous complication that develops in some individuals with spinal cord injury. The ability to swallow, clear one’s throat, cough, take a deep breath, and ensure that when eating, fluid and liquid go down “the right way” is controlled by nerves that exit the cervical spine in the neck. When these nerves […]
Chronic Shoulder, Arm and Hand Pain
Individuals suffering from traumatic brachial plexus injury often complain of severe pain in the affected limb. A brachial plexus injury occurs when a powerful force pushes down on the shoulder while extending the neck in the other direction. In can also happen if the arm is forcefully pulled above the head. Positional Pain Pain can […]
Emotions Surrounding a Loved One’s Serious Injury Accident
If you are a family member, loved one or friend of an individual critically injured in an accident, you may experience a range of emotions. It’s common to feel shocked that someone you care for has been seriously injured. This is often followed by denial. You may feel that you can’t believe the accident has […]
Shearing of Neurons in Traumatic Brain Injury
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is completing research into understanding how microscopic nerve cells in the brain are affected during a traumatic brain injury. Anatomy of Neuronal Shearing The brain is composed of cells which are called neurons. A neuron has a long nerve fiber which is called an axon, and […]
Spastic Hypertonia after Spinal Cord Injury
Muscle spasms after a spinal cord injury result from impaired control of the body’s reflexes, and motor neurons in the spinal cord reacting to a variety of stimuli. If something stimulates the arms or the legs, for example, the signal travels along the nerves to the spinal cord on its way to the brain’s reflex […]
Nerve Testing after Brachial Plexus Injury
If you’ve suffered from a traumatic brachial plexus injury that affects the movement of your shoulder, arm or hand, doctors will likely order electrophysiologic testing. Electro-diagnosis uses the body’s own nervous system to determine how well electrical impulses travel along nerves to stimulate a response in the targeted tissue. This tissue could be a muscle […]
TVM and Severe Pelvic Pain
Women who received transvaginal mesh (TVM) are at risk of developing infection, pain, nerve damage and erosion of the mesh through body tissues and into a body cavity. While mesh has successfully treated hernias, the tissues in the vagina are different from those in the abdominal cavity, and complications have been much more frequent and […]
Don’t Forget the Bike Helmet: Preventing TBI
Wearing a helmet when bicycling can significantly improve your chance of avoiding a serious head injury if involved in an accident. Common dangers to bicyclists include drivers opening the car door into the bike lane without checking for traffic, and pulling out in front of, cutting off, or side-swiping a bicyclist. A Series of Injuries […]
Preventing Pressure Ulcers
Pressure ulcers are one of the most serious complications of spinal cord injury. They lead to pain, infection and increased mortality. Researchers have identified factors which increase the likelihood that an individual with spinal cord injury will be repeatedly hospitalized for pressure ulcers. The most important of these are called modifiable risk factors, which means […]
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