A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury. The ...

A team of Japanese researchers reports that two out of four patients who received stem cell transplants showed improvements in motor function, marking a potential breakthrough in the treatment of ...

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

As a high school teacher and baseball coach, Steve Loutzenhiser is used to an active life, describing himself as “super ...

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

That’s because early Monday morning, Mir revealed on Instagram that he recently “underwent an emergency spinal fusion and laminectomy of (his) entire thoracic spine.” According to Johns Hopkins ...

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.

The modified Allen method was employed to induce SCI. A contusion was inserted into the T10 spinous process of the spinal cord using a specially designed IH-0400 spinal impactor (PSI, Lexington, KY, ...

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 ...