It’s made of a collection of nerves and is encircled and protected by the bones of the spine (vertebrae). The cervical (neck) and the lumbar (lower back) components of the spinal cord are ...

People with incomplete cervical spinal cord injuries showed improvements to their hand and arm movements after receiving a ...

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

You have hundreds of nerves and billions of neurons in your body. The nervous system is divided into two components — the CNS and the PNS. The CNS includes your brain and spinal cord while the ...

Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system. Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that ...

Applying red-light therapy to a damaged spinal cord protects and regenerates nerve cells, leading to a return of motor and sensory function, according to new research.

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 ...

Degenerative cervical spondylosis is a chronic, progressive deterioration of osseocartilaginous components of ... through which nerve roots exit the spinal column, and leads to circumferential ...

said the high purity cells and innovative nerve bridges are the critical components of the therapy. "Despite decades of worldwide research to find a treatment for spinal cord injury, there is ...

Doctors hope to use the body's own nerves to bridge the gap in the spinal cord left by paralysing injuries. Dr John Martin, from Columbia University, New York, took a nerve leaving the spine just ...