In a study published in Cell on July 10, researchers reported the first comprehensive study of whole-brain projectomes of the ...

For chronic pain patients, though, the brain interprets even neutral sensations as pain and suffering. In effect, pain ...

Endometriosis is a reproductive condition that occurs when tissue similar to your uterine lining grows outside the uterus, ...

Medtronic’s InterStim Micro neurostimulator sends electrical impulses to the sacral nerves in the lower back to improve bladder and bowel control. [Image courtesy of Medtronic] Medtronic (NYSE ...

Nerves in this region include the sacral nerves, which arise from the sacral plexus. These nerves innervate the lower back, pelvis, perineum, and lower limbs. The coccygeal nerves arise from the ...

These nerves are part of your peripheral nervous system. They carry information in the form of nerve impulses from your spinal cord to the rest of your body and from your body to your spinal cord.

The technical advances of sacral nerve stimulation testing phase, namely the use of a tined lead and two phase testing, have improved the results during the last decade. [4] However, the complex ...

Abstract The pelvic organs (bladder, rectum and sex organs) have been represented for a century as receiving autonomic innervation from two pathways — lumbar sympathetic and sacral parasympathetic — ...

In Figure 3 they present evidence that some pelvic ganglionic neurons are dually innervated by sympathetic preganglionic neurons and sacral preganglionic neurons. These observations are interpreted to ...