In most patients with neck pain, an absent or depressed deep-tendon reflex is the result of nerve root compression. When the reflexes are hyperactive, the lesion is centrally located either in the ...

Two rows of nerve roots are present on each side of the spinal cord, ... including vascular and somatic reflexes, muscle tone, posture, and balance. The spinal vasculature.

However, with nerve root enlargement and clumping, as in this case, the etiology is more likely infiltrative. Subsequent evaluation of this patient demonstrated metastatic carcinoma of the stomach.

The communication pathway, known as the inflammatory reflex, is signaled through the vagus nerve – the longest cranial nerve made up of more than 100,000 individual nerve fibers.

For more than 30 years electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves has been applied to restore or improve body functions such as walking, hearing, bladder voiding, and grasping. Electrical ...

Results: Reflex erections were preserved in each patient. ... Neuromodulation through sacral nerve roots 2 to 4 with a Finetech-Brindley sacral posterior and anterior root stimulator.