Your spinal cord is a key part of your central nervous system that connects your brain to your body. It rests in the spinal canal, which is formed by the hollow spaces in the center of each ...

A paradigm shift in the way we treat spinal injuries is now in sight, with the world's first regenerative cell therapy being ...

Despite its importance, problems related to CSF often go unnoticed until something goes wrong.

The foramina line up to form the protective spinal canal that surrounds your spinal cord. “Stenosis” is the Greek word for narrowing. If you have spinal stenosis, parts of your spinal canal ...

This process enables the surgeons to access the area around the spinal cord and enlarges the spinal canal, which relieves pressure on the cord and the nerves around it. The surgeons free the ...

Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human ...

These neurons are found in the ependymal layer shown in blue, which is a thin layer of specialized epithelial cells surrounding the central canal, a hollow space in the spinal cord that is filled with ...

A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket. This was the first time ...

The goal of surgery is to relieve pressure on the spinal cord by decompressing the spinal canal. There are two main approaches to surgery: the posterior approach, in which a portion of the posterior ...