Myelopathy refers to a cluster of symptoms that result from spinal cord compression. This can occur from trauma, inflammation, tumors, or the aging-related degeneration of the spine. Spinal cord ...

A life-changing therapy being used at a small rehabilitation clinic in suburban Chicago is giving new hope to people with spinal cord injuries. Next Steps Chicago in Willow Springs is a non-profit ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...

He came close to being paralyzed. Transported to a trauma unit in Oklahoma City, he underwent 10-hour reconstructive surgery on his spinal chord with screws and pins inserted into his back.

Touch, however, is diffuse: The neurons that relay touch signals reside in clusters outside the spinal cord, from which they extend a vast web of axon fibers, like jellyfish tentacles, into the skin ...

Meningitis is an inflammation of the fluid and three membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. The symptoms of viral and bacterial meningitis can be similar in the beginning.

Actor Nick Moran, who played Scabior the snatcher in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movies, has undergone a major spinal cord surgery, revealed People magazine. His representative, confirmed ...

“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 ...

In most vertebrates, painful sensations are known to arise from the nervous system, which includes the brain, an intricate network of nerves and the spinal cord. While the brain's contribution to ...

Cresswell, who was 23 at the time, damaged her spinal cord in the fall and was paralysed from the chest down. She now uses a wheelchair. Canter (left) won eventing gold at the Paris Olympics ...

Lumbar segments 3–5 of the spinal cord were obtained and postfixed with the same fixative for 4 h, placed in 30% (w/v) sucrose solution in 0.05 M PB solution (PBS; pH 7.4) overnight at 48°C and cut ...