While the immediate goal of bariatric surgery is to help obese patients shed significant weight, new research shows it may also reduce diabetes complications, including nerve damage. Investigators ...

Bariatric surgery may reverse peripheral nerve injury and slow the progression of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy and retinopathy in patients with severe obesity, according to a cohort study ...

For more than 100 million Americans who are obese, bariatric surgery may reverse complications related to diabetes, including regenerating damaged nerves, a Michigan Medicine study shows. A research ...

SAN DIEGO — Among patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy who also had a compressed nerve behind the knee and were in pain despite medical therapies, those who had nerve-decompression surgery had ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. After Nick Ventimiglia was diagnosed with diabetes at age 40, he began to experience increasing pain and numbness in his upper ...

Peripheral nerves are important structures in the body that carry information from the brain and spinal cord out to the muscles to initiate movements and carry sensory information back from the ...

A notable shift is occurring in how diabetic peripheral neuropathy patients approach treatment decisions, with an increasing number exploring conservative compression therapy options before committing ...

A peripheral nerve block is a procedure done by an anesthesiologist to provide postoperative pain relief for people having knee replacement surgery. The anesthesiologist (a doctor specializing in pain ...

Postsurgical nerve damage can occur for various reasons, including misdiagnosis, surgical error, and scar tissue formation. Common signs of postoperative nerve damage include tingling, numbness, ...