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, ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

The pain started in waves in my lower back and travelled down my left thigh as I worked bent over my laptop on my couch—the ...

The next best thing: a great lumbar support pillow. The lumbar generally refers to your lower spine, or the lower back area, which is typically the part of the body that’s under the most stress ...

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that causes compression of the spinal cord and/or nerve roots. Resulting pain and numbness ... American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Lumbar ...

Figure 1. Schematic representation of the three major pathogenic mechanisms in lumbar disc herniation (LDH). The mechanical compression theory focuses on direct nerve root compression, the chemical ...

The nerve roots that transmit the sensation of pain to the legs and ... The nerves that send fibers to the knee are located at the second, third, and fourth lumbar vertebral levels in the lower back ...

Lesioning of the primary neurons in the dorsal root ganglion can be used as an ... Notably, administering RTX to both the uninjured L3 and L4 nerves completely alleviates the neuropathic pain ...

Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Jamie Smith and Jacob Bethell were just some of the Test debutants who immediately seized their stage, while Harry Brook and Joe Root's ... held their nerve to win ...