In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...

Scientists at UC San Diego are looking into the body's healing mechanisms for clues on recovery from spinal cord injury. A new study by researchers in the Department of Neurobiology (School of ...

“I spoke to one of his family members and he damaged his neck somehow and it’s affecting his spinal cord and some of the things that operate your speech and your legs,” Stone said of the 55 ...

Tommy Rowlingson became paralysed from the chest down aged 19 after being diagnosed with Acute Transverse Myelitis in 2022, a condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord. Now, the 21-year ...

To count total motor neurons, brachial spinal cord sections were immunolabeled for Isl1/2 and Tuj1. Isl1/2 + cells in the ventral horn were counted and expressed as neurons per hemisection, averaging ...

In a follow-up in September 2024, the repeat MRI of the cervical spinal cord showed a decrease in abnormal signals, resolution of spinal cord edema and the appearance of spinal cord atrophy, as shown ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...