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

Pensioner Bhim Kohli died in hospital a day after suffering fractured ribs and a spinal cord injury in an alleged attack at Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, near Leicester, on September 1 last year.

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 ...

A spinal wedge, also known as a wedge fracture or compression fracture, is a type of fracture that occurs when the front of a vertebra collapses. This leaves the back of the vertebra intact, resulting ...

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.

Spinal cord injury leads to loss of innervation of skeletal muscle, decreased motor function, and significantly reduced load on skeletal muscle, resulting in atrophy. Factors such as braking, hormone ...

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 ...

Scientists report results from a promising new approach to treat the rare neurodegenerative disorder. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before ...

Valentina had been in Philadelphia since August 2024, receiving treatment for myelomeningocele, a severe spinal cord malformation, at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia, family friends told Reforma. She ...