The Ohio State University Medical Center has been invited to join the Neuropathy Association’s network of neuropathy centers. Ohio State’s new center will be co-directed by Drs. John T. Kissel and Victoria Lawson.
Established in 1995, The Neuropathy Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing patient support and education as well as promoting research into causes and cures for peripheral neuropathies. The Neuropathy Association will now have 12 centers.
Plans for the center include two separate outpatient clinics, one focusing on hereditary neuropathies and the other specializing in inflammatory and other acquired neuropathies. Research projects and studies are already under way. More than 20 million Americans are affected by peripheral neuropathy. The disorder often causes injury to peripheral nerves and disrupts the body’s ability to communicate with its muscles organs and tissues.
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