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Nutritional Motor Neuropathy (NMN)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Nutritional Motor Neuropathy (NMN) is a nerve-damage syndrome that develops when the body is deprived of key vitamins, minerals, or overall calories for weeks to months. The shortage starves long ...

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Critical Illness Motor Neuropathy (CIMN)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Critical Illness Motor Neuropathy (CIMN) is an acute, diffuse injury to the motor portions of peripheral nerves that develops in severely ill, usually ventilated, ICU patients. It leads to ...

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Paraneoplastic Motor Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Paraneoplastic Motor Neuropathy is a rare, immune-driven attack on the motor nerves that control voluntary muscle movement. It happens because the body tries to fight a hidden cancer but accidentally ...

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Toxic Motor Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Toxic motor neuropathy is a nerve-damage disorder in which chemicals, drugs, or biological toxins selectively attack the motor fibers that control muscle movement. Unlike diabetic or hereditary ...

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Diabetic Motor Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Diabetic motor neuropathy is a form of nerve damage that strikes the big motor nerves powering your muscles rather than (or long before) the small sensory nerves that let you feel touch and pain. In ...

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Immune-Mediated Motor Neuropathy (IMMN)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Immune-mediated motor neuropathy (IMMN) is an umbrella term for a small group of rare disorders in which the body’s own immune system mistakenly attacks the motor nerves—the “wires” that carry ...

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Distal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Distal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy—often shortened to dHMN—is a group of inherited nerve disorders in which the longest, most distant motor nerves slowly degenerate. Motor nerves carry signals from ...

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Distal Axonal Motor Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Distal Axonal Motor Neuropathy (often shortened to DAMN or simply “distal motor axonal neuropathy”) is a nerve-wasting disorder in which the long, thin extensions (axons) of motor nerves gradually ...

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Critical-Illness Motor Axonopathy (CIMA)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Critical-Illness Motor Axonopathy (CIMA) is the pure motor, axonal form of the broader syndrome called critical-illness polyneuropathy and myopathy (CIP/CIM). In CIMA, the long “wires” (axons) of ...

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Vasculitic Pure Motor Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Vasculitic Pure Motor Neuropathy (V-PMN) is a rare but disabling nerve disorder caused by inflammation of the very small blood vessels (the vasa nervorum) that feed your motor nerves. Because those ...

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Paraneoplastic Motor Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Paraneoplastic Motor Neuropathy (PMN) is a rare, immune-mediated nerve disorder triggered by an underlying, often hidden cancer. It causes slowly progressive limb weakness, muscle wasting, and ...

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Thyrotoxic Distal Neuropathy

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Thyrotoxic distal neuropathy is a type of peripheral nerve injury caused or worsened by thyrotoxicosis—a state of excess circulating thyroid hormones (T₃ and T₄). Because nerve fibers in the feet and ...

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Diabetic Distal Motor Neuropathy (DDMN)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Diabetic distal motor neuropathy (DDMN) is a form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in which chronically high blood-sugar levels damage the longest motor nerve fibres first, causing weakness and ...

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Pure Motor Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (PM-CIDP)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Pure Motor CIDP is a rare immune-mediated disorder in which your own immune system attacks the myelin sheath—the protective “insulation” around peripheral motor nerves—without noticeably harming the ...

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Distal Acquired Demyelinating Symmetric Neuropathy (DADS)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

Distal Acquired Demyelinating Symmetric Neuropathy (DADS) is an uncommon, slow-moving variant of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Unlike classic CIDP, which weakens ...

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Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN)

Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist

MMN, sometimes called “multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block,” is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy. In plain English, your body’s defence system mistakenly produces antibodies (most ...