announced today that it has conducted a cadaver test utilizing its unique artificial spinal disc technology and that the test was deemed a success by the surgeons involved. The cadaver procedure ...

Your nervous system is composed of a network of nerves and nerve cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord and the rest of the body. A nerve is a bundle of fibers that ...

The retina, optic nerve, olfactory nerves, and olfactory epithelium are sometimes considered to be part of the CNS alongside the brain and spinal cord. This is because they connect directly with ...

Further tests in human cadaver models showed that the devices ... currently planning to use the devices to monitor nerve activity in the spinal cord during surgery. "It's been almost impossible ...

But its new Hero Allograft was the first product it ever made from the tissue — in this case the bones — of a donated human cadaver. Jason Blain, president of Spinal Elements, says the company ...

Axons, the nerve fibers that carry electrical signals around the body, cannot regenerate themselves after injury, which is what can make spinal injuries so debilitating. One of the major problems ...

The doctor will join spinal bones, called vertebrae, together. This limits the motion between them and how far your nerves can stretch. But it probably won’t limit your activity. It’s rare ...

It’s a type of anesthesia that doctors may give you during surgery to numb your spinal nerves and prevent pain signals from traveling to your brain. It usually begins to work in only 10 to 20 ...

In addition, the reporter was able to watch neurosurgeons Mohamed A.M. Labib and Alhusain Nagm demonstrate the procedure on a cadaver ... strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of ...

Three people who were completely paralysed from the waist down due to spinal cord injuries can now walk while using wheeled walking frames or crutches for support, thanks to implants that ...

This enabled them to design an electrode that specifically targets the spinal nerves in the primates’ necks that control hand and arm movements. They then surgically paralysed the left arms of ...