Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged, the symptoms can vary widely, from pain to paralysis to incontinence. Spinal cord injuries are described at various levels of ...

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 ...

Chris Penn, co-founder of Good Records and a fixture in the Dallas music scene, died on Wednesday, weeks after a fall damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the neck down. He was 54.

The score was 21 out of 21, with 0 being complete paralysis. The fixed spinal cord tissue was removed, along with the excess nerve roots. Then, the tissue was paraffin-embedded and 4-μm paraffin ...

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 ... slender extensions of nerve cell bodies that transmit ...

“There is a ventral spinal cord herniation at T8,” he announced, referring to the eighth thoracic vertebra ... and that the forward traction on the nerves was causing the leg to drag. Being a ...

In spinal surgery, for example, surgeons can visualize critical areas such as the spinal cord, nerve roots, and bone structures without the need for direct access or reliance on traditional imaging.

The tumor stretched from the second cervical vertebra (C2) down to the fifth thoracic vertebra (T5), affecting nearly one-third of the spinal cord ... every nerve fiber was handled with ...