GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Mount Pleasant resident who was paralyzed from the neck down after a fall while walking his dog is ...

Researchers say a surgery that let pigs with completely severed spinal cords walk again may lead to human trials, and then ...

There are fears that thousands of people in the UK may potentially face complex surgery to remove a spinal implant that has ...

Matricelf Ltd. (TASE: MTLF), a regenerative medicine company developing personalized engineered tissue implants for spinal cord injury, announced the initiation of a pivotal preclinical efficacy study ...

A 9-year-old Ventura County girl is working to walk again after a life-threatening spinal fracture, drawing strength from her ...

Animal spinal cord injury (SCI) models have proved invaluable in better understanding the mechanisms involved in traumatic SCI and evaluating the effectiveness of experimental therapeutic ...

Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...

Depressed spinal reflexes caudal to spinal cord injury (SCI), defined as spinal shock, have intrigued clinicians and researchers for more than two centuries. Despite this history, the etiology and ...

Spinal stenosis does not always cause symptoms. When it does, symptoms can include neck, back, and leg pain. If cauda equina syndrome develops, it can also cause bowel and bladder dysfunction and more ...

Prolonged antibiotic courses were not associated with reduced risk for postoperative spinal implant infections.

Bacteria reach the epidural space through either hematogenous dissemination (commonly due to bloodstream infection associated with a central venous catheter, intravenous drug use, or catheter-related ...