A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal ...

It’s less than an inch in diameter. You might assume that ... Each segment has many sets of nerves that exit the spinal cord: eight cervical sets, 12 thoracic, five lumbar, five sacral, and ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

The severity of Spinal cord injury depends on the location and extent of damage. Injuries to the cervical spine can result in quadriplegia, affecting all four limbs, whereas injuries to the ...

UW Medicine is unveiling an FDA-approved spinal cord therapy in an effort to offer new hope for paralyzed patients.

In a new study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated ...

The cervical spinal cord and the paired vertebral arteries are critical occupants of the cervical spine, and injury to these structures results in catastrophic quadriplegia (spinal cord injury) or ...

In recent years, low-level electrical stimulation has emerged as an effective rehabilitative tool for people with spinal cord injuries ... pilot study’s sample size is small — only two ...

It's a handheld unit, about the size of an iPad, but thicker in order to support a large enough battery to deliver high-frequency waveforms to a person’s spinal cord. “We think of it like a ...

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