A new multicenter study led by Zachary Binder, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, provides compelling evidence that an ultrasound-guided nerve block can dramatically improve pain control for ...

Nerve blocks can help relieve migraine pain when other treatments don't work. The treatment involves injecting a local anesthetic near targeted nerves in the head. Relief from a nerve block can last ...

Ultrasound-guided axillary nerve block (ANB) was as effective as fracture hematoma block (FHB) in providing pain control for forearm fracture reduction in emergency departments (EDs), with ANB causing ...

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro underwent "a phrenic nerve block procedure" on Saturday to treat his persistent hiccups, his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, said on social media. The former ...

The subscapular, anterior circumflex, and posterior circumflex arteries arise from the third part of the axillary artery. During dissection of the right upper limb of the cadaver of a 70-year-old male ...

People hospitalized for a debilitating migraine should receive targeted nerve blocks rather than IV opioids to quell their pain, a major update of treatment guidelines suggests. Doctors should use a ...

Doctors should use a nerve block injection to stop pain signals from thrumming through the occipital nerves located near the top of the spine, a report published in Headache: The Journal of Head and ...

Peripheral nerve blocks may not delay diagnosis and treatment of acute compartment syndrome in children at risk of developing the adverse event, a new study has concluded. A link to this article will ...

What Is the Occipital Nerve? The occipital nerve is actually a group of nerves that give you feeling in your scalp. They branch off from larger nerves in your spinal cord. There are three kinds of ...

A study led by doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina and UMass Chan Medical School found that ultrasound-guided nerve blocks helped kids with broken thigh bones, also known as femurs, ...

Cleft lip is one of the most common birth defects. The surgery to correct this defect can cause moderate to severe pain. Many of the drugs to reduce pain (analgesics) used in adults can have unwanted ...