As spirometry requires coordinated deep breathing and can be challenging for children to perform, researchers from the USA, as part of the TRANSPIRE study investigating lung complications in children ...

Charcot joint arthropathy is a progressive degenerative condition where neuropathy causes joint destruction, deformity and ...

Background Hemodynamic depression is common after carotid artery stenting (CAS), but whether its two phenotypes, persistent hypotension and bradycardia, reflect shared or distinct autonomic responses ...

Congenital insensitivity to pain — or CIP, for short — is a term used to describe the inability to feel physical pain, and a few rare genetic disorders cause it. People who have CIP can't feel any ...

A neurologist is a doctor who diagnoses and treats conditions that affect the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and nerves). Neurologists treat conditions such as stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson’s ...

Background Pure autonomic failure (PAF) presents with progressive autonomic failure without other neurological features. Atypical presentations may lead to diagnostic uncertainty. We studied whether ...

NEW ORLEANS — There is an invisible health condition that mainly affects young women. Then, after COVID hit, the number of women suffering from debilitating symptoms went up five-fold. Yet still, many ...

Introduction Motor and autonomic dysfunctions are widespread among people with spinal cord injury (SCI), leading to poor health and reduced quality of life. Exercise interventions, such as locomotor ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When a stubborn pain in Nick van Terheyden’s bones would not ...

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Types include: Observational study — observes people and measures outcomes without affecting results. Interventional study (clinical trial) — studies new ...

Supine hypertension affects most patients with orthostatic hypotension (OH) due to autonomic failure, but it is often untreated for fear of worsening OH. We hypothesized that increasing intrathoracic ...