Anatom3DAnterior root of spinal nerve
Radix anterior nervi spinalis · Přední kořen míšního nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
The bundle of nerve fibres leaving the front side of the spinal cord at each level.
What it does
Carries movement commands to muscles and, in some levels, autonomic signals to organs.
Keeping it well
Pressed by slipped discs or bone spurs, causing weakness in the muscles of that level.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- B12 & folate deficiency
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chiari malformation and syringomyelia
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Herniated disc
- Lyme disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neck pain and cervical spondylosis
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Neurogenic bladder
- Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Poliomyelitis
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Spina bifida & neural tube defects
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Tetanus
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies