Karla Flores was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. A misplaced MRI found a second, nearly inoperable, tumor on her spine.

I didn’t expect that I’d have any trouble getting or staying pregnant because I was 27 when I started trying. I was always ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating, debilitating, and life-altering condition that currently lacks a definitive cure or highly effective treatment ...

A normally aligned spine will have lordosis in the lumbar region (lower back) and cervical (neck) region, and kyphosis in the thoracic (chest) region. The amount of curvature in each part of the spine ...

Osteoarthritis is a caused by degenerative changes in a person's spinal joints that occurs due to years of use as a person ages. Osteoarthritis of the back or neck, also known as spondylosis, is much ...

otherwise known as a neck stretcher. These devices increase spine flexibility and ease neck inflammation, according to Dr. Ken Hansraj, author of “Watch Your Back” and chief of spine surgery ...

Specifically, we observe that four-category cervical histology images possess a progressive inter-class association. To model the relationship, inspired by the elasticity, an adaptive elastic loss is ...

Background and objective Patients undergoing spinal surgeries may develop postoperative visual loss. We present a case of total bilateral visual loss in a patient who, despite having clinical and ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of tranexamic acid in reducing blood loss ... in spine surgery. [9] They enrolled 64 patients of whom 18 had multilevel anterior cervical ...

Background Clinical decision rules (CDRs) are commonly used to guide imaging decisions in cervical spine injury (CSI ... Five children (0.5%) had CSIs. Loss to telephone follow-up rate was 6.8%. As ...