Nerve damage and nerve pain (neuralgia) can have multiple causes. Learn about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments, along with further complications and risks.

Neurogenic bladder and bowel occur when nerve damage causes you to have difficulty controlling your bladder and bowel. If left untreated, they can cause serious complications. However, treatment ...

Those with bowel disease were also more than six times more likely to also have a disorder called sensorimotor polyneuropathy, a nerve disease that can cause weakness, pain, and numbness.

More young people are getting colon cancer. A man diagnosed at age 29 shares symptoms as part of this trend — pelvic pain, ... he experienced neuropathy, numbness and tingling from nerve damage.

Muscle or Nerve Damage. Your bowel function is controlled by the anal sphincter muscle's ability to hold in stool, the rectum ...

Various nerves control bladder and bowel function, including the spinal cord, cauda equina, pudendal nerves, and the enteric nervous system, a nerve network in the walls of the digestive tract.

In terms of treating IBD, there are two goals—to relieve symptoms and to reduce inflammation and damage to the intestines. It’s not always easy to achieve both goals simultaneously.

Ischemic Colitis occurs when blood flow to part of the colon is reduced or blocked, causing inflammation and potential tissue damage. Symptoms can range from mild abdominal discomfort to severe ...

The trial was investigating the use of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an autoimmune condition that includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.