Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation.

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, ...

Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow down your overall risk here.

aDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada bDivision of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada ...

A knowledge gap around cervical screenings is currently "costing lives", a cancer charity says. The Eve Appeal says more women need to know they can ask for adjustments to their cervical ...

While the central nervous system is comprised of the brain and spinal cord, the peripheral nervous system is made up of all nerves branching off the spinal cord, extending to every part of the body.

Scientists discovered that the earliest ecdysozoans likely had a single ventral nerve cord, with paired cords evolving independently in some groups. Fossil evidence links nerve cord evolution to body ...

He sustained severe injuries to the thoracic spinal cord, with a knife lodged in the spine. Emergency surgery was performed to remove the knife and repair the leaking spinal fluid. Additionally ...

“Instead of tapping the tendon with a tendon hammer, we activate the sensory nerves because it’s a sensory and then motor loop that goes through the spinal cord.” With normal spinal ...

relieving pressure on nerve roots in the spine. There are two types of spinal foramen: Vertebral foramen: The entire spinal cord runs through the center of the vertebral foramen. Intervertebral ...