The spinal cord is the bundle of nerve tissue ... such as injections or surgery for your lumbar spine. Understanding the basic anatomy of the five lumbar bones that make up your low back can ...

The thoracic spine serves many functions. It protects the spinal cord, the bundle of nerves that extend from your brain to the body. It provides an attachment point for your ribs and helps with ...

The spine (aka backbone) is a linked column of bones running from the head down to the lower back. Bone segments form the column. One bone segment is a vertebra, and multiple bone segments are ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

It appears monthly, online and in print, and accepts contributions on spinal cord anatomy, physiology, management of injury and disease, and the quality of life and life circumstances of people ...

Our mission is to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and clinical application by 1) developing and optimizing promising therapies and 2) improving existing protocols, for the treatment of ...

A neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist discover promising new ways to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again ...

Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) can temporarily or permanently disrupt ... Shortly after the injury, steroid medications and surgery are used to help reduce inflammation and stabilize the spine. After ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

More than 15 million people worldwide are living with spinal cord injury (SCI), which can affect their sensory and motor ...

He has been involved in clinical research on spinal cord injury / disease topics, mainly neuro-urology and spine surgery, for over 10 years. Before moving into clinical research, he was active in ...

On Wednesday, researchers reported what they called the first evidence that a spine-stimulating implant ... nerve cells in the spinal cord that control muscles. That leads muscles to waste away ...