Home. Free Medical Journals. Peripheral Nerve Disorders. Your peripheral nerves are the ones outside your brain and spinal cord.
Like static on a telephone line, peripheral nerve disorders distort or interrupt the messages between the brain and the rest of the body. There are more than 100 kinds of peripheral nerve disorders. They can affect one nerve or many nerves. Some are the result of other diseases, like diabetic nerve problems. Others, like Guillain-Barre syndrome, happen after a virus infection. National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health. The Open Access Publisher.