A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first ...

SurGenTec announced that OsteoFlo HydroFiber, its synthetic bone graft solution equivalent to autograft, is now being used in ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) patients often rely on their loved ones as caregivers for help with daily tasks. Caring for a loved ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified novel mechanisms regulating the development of the spinal column during ...

A recent study published in the journal Engineering delves into the application of tissue engineering in spinal cord injury ...

He told them the mass was an ependymoma, a benign tumor that filled the diameter of Loutzenhiser’s spinal cord. These rare ...

New research from the University of Kentucky has earned a spot on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience, highlighting a ...

What Are the Treatments for Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people age 50 and older. Nothing can cure it, but there are ...

the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows because of arthritis, bone spurs, or other problems.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes a specific type of damage, called demyelination, to the central nervous system, including the spinal cord. MS is a neurological disease. It causes the immune system ...

Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) causes a loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. It mainly affects facial and swallowing muscles and the muscles in the arms and legs.

The word "myelopathy" means a problem with the spinal cord, which can lead to numbness, weakness, dysautonomia (group of conditions causing problems with involuntary movements), and more. There are ...