Discover the crucial early indicators of serious spine damage, understand when back pain signals an emergency, and learn ...

‌Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. After peripheral nerve injury, the structure ...

Unstable vertebrae can press on the nerve roots and spinal cord, which can cause numbness and tingling that goes up into the back of your head. It can also lead to pain, stiffness, and swelling. In a ...

The compression of the spinal cord can block nerve signals from the spinal nerve roots emerging from different parts of the spine. This can lead to the loss of sensation or function of the part of the ...

Methods: We stimulated the sciatic nerve while using electromyography to measure diaphragm function in anesthetized mice following a cervical (C2) hemisection spinal cord injury, as well as in ...