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Pressure on the nerves can cause tingling sensations, numbness, pain, weakness, muscle atrophy and even paralysis of the affected area. In normal individuals, these symptoms disappear quickly, but in sufferers of HNPP even a short period of pressure can cause the symptoms to occur. Palsies can last from minutes or days to weeks or even months ...
Certain occupations, postures, and activities can put prolonged pressure on a nerve. The term "Saturday night palsy" is used for a radial nerve injury caused by prolonged compression of the nerve at the spiral groove. The origin of the term is due to the association of the condition with a night spent in alcoholic stupor with the arm draped ...
Inherited – hereditary motor neuropathies, Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy; Acquired – diabetes mellitus, vascular neuropathy, alcohol use disorder, vitamin E deficiency, and vitamin B12 deficiency
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease and its counterpart Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy; Copper deficiency-associated conditions (peripheral neuropathy, myelopathy, and rarely optic neuropathy) Progressive inflammatory neuropathy
Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP), a peripheral neuropathy that affects the sensory and muscle nerves; Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP), a condition that causes a variety of signs and symptoms chiefly affecting the nervous system
Cerebral palsy; Direct physical trauma to the affected limb; Central nervous mass lesion, including tumor, hematoma, or abscess [3] Complicated migraine [3] Epilepsy [3] Head or spinal trauma [3] Hereditary brachial neuritis [3] Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy [3] Neonatal brachial plexus paralysis [3] Neuropathy [3 ...
Distal hereditary motor neuronopathies (distal HMN, dHMN), sometimes also called distal hereditary motor neuropathies, are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of motor neuron diseases that result from genetic mutations in various genes and are characterized by degeneration and loss of motor neuron cells in the anterior horn of the spinal cord and subsequent muscle atrophy.
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