Nerve Injury Open Access Articles

Nerve Injury Open Access Articles

Nerve injury is an injury to nervous tissue. There is no single classification system that can describe all the many variations of nerve injury. Most systems attempt to correlate the degree of injury with symptoms, pathology and prognosis. Neuropraxia is the least severe form of nerve injury, with complete recovery. In this case, the axon remains intact, but there is myelin damage causing an interruption in conduction of the impulse down the nerve fiber. Axonotmesis is a more severe nerve injury with disruption of the neuronal axon, but with maintenance of the epineurium. Electrically, the nerve shows rapid and complete degeneration, with loss of voluntary motor units. Regeneration of the motor end plates will occur, as long as the endoneural tubules are intact


Last Updated on: Nov 26, 2024

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