In the spinal column, nerve roots branch off the spinal cord and form a network of somatic nerves throughout the body. Damage to or compression of the nerve roots in the spine that serve the somatic nervous system can lead to symptoms like numbness, tingling, loss of movement, burning and pain in the area of the body that corresponds to that somatic spinal nerve. Common causes of nerve root compression in the somatic nervous system include: Degenerative disc disease.
Kmart Closing Stores. Kmart is closing several stores and will soon begin going out of business sales at the designated locations. A statement released by the company cited a desire to reduce âongoing expensesâ and to speed up business model transformation plans as the motivation behind the store closings.
Sears Holdings released a list of 79 Kmart and Sears stores that will close as part of the companyâs plan to shutter up to 120 stores. There is no word yet on an exact timetable for the closings. No stores are closing, at least not yet, in neighboring Illinois. Less than two weeks ago, the Illinois legislature essentially exempted sears holdings from a huge tax increase thatâs hitting other businesses in that state in an effort to keep the company from moving its headquarters out of Chicago.