What Are Damaged Nerves?
“Hello I’m Alex Mauskop. I’m a neurologist here in New York City and I’m the director of the New York Headache Center. Nerves cover the entire body. There is no spot on your body that doesn’t have nerve endings. That is why we have good sensation, when you touch someone you feel the touch and so there are two major kinds of nerves. One is accessory nerves that allows you to feel things, heat, cold, touch and there are other nerves that move your muscles. That is nerve, comes from the brain through a spinal chord and to the muscle and the muscle contracts. Your brain has to give the order. So the nerves can be damaged by a variety of conditions. It could be an inflammation of the nerves, it could be compression of the nerve which often results in a painful condition called neuralgia, inflammation of the nerves often occurs due to viral infection and sometimes for no apparent reason we sometimes cannot diagnose why some people have what we call peripheral neuropathy. So peripheral neurop
