Researchers demonstrated unprecedented rates of recovery for spinal cord injuries. Individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury safely received a combination of stimulation of a nerve in the neck ...

Backus Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification in Spine Surgery, according to a community announcement. The certification is a nationally recognized ...

Learn more about your cervical disks, what can cause one to become damaged, the symptoms, and when to call your doctor. It helps if you first learn a little about your spine, how it’s ...

The discovery of the second chordoma, a thumb-size mass in her cervical spinal cord ... Flores was then taken for a CT scan. The doctors checked the scan to ensure the tumor was completely ...

Dr. Michael Kilgard, the Margaret Fonde Jonsson Professor of neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences The trial involved 19 participants with chronic, incomplete cervical spinal ...

In a new clinical study, researchers from the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) at The University of Texas at Dallas ...

‌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 ...

Spinal cord lesions are more commonly seen in progressive forms of multiple sclerosis, and they can result in an increased risk of disability. In relapsing-remitting MS, which 80 to 85 percent of ...

RA in the back usually affects the cervical spine, which refers to the top seven vertebrae, including the neck. However, RA can also affect other areas of the spine, such as the lumbar region in ...