Created with ♥ by RumbleYour central nervous system is an extensive network that channels nerve impulses from your brain, through your spinal cord and exits the vertebral spinal column (your ...

In the center of your body’s repair system are tiny cells with mighty power—pericytes. These small but active cells surround ...

Freeman found that axons severed within the spinal cord and nerve roots have a ‘relentless compulsion’ to grow until they reach tissues that provide return of function, or are blocked by scar ...

A procedure in which working nerves are rerouted to paralyzed muscles has shown improvements in hand and arm function, giving patients with spinal cord injury "a whole new realm of independence." ...

Upper limb function after a spinal cord injury could be restored by using commonly prescribed drug for nerve pain, which could also help restore functions in mice, research suggests.//// ...

The improved function persisted even after the stimulation stopped, indicating that the treatment may be inducing nerve cells to regrow in the damaged area. Sophie Bushwick, senior news editor at New ...

July 12 (UPI) -- An investigational cancer drug has been shown to help regenerate damaged nerves after spinal trauma with "remarkable recovery" of sensory and motor functions in animals, British ...

The donor nerves remain connected to the spine at all times. Seruya moved to Los Angeles in 2015 and continued evaluating children with AFM.

Paralysed patients able to walk again as 'breakthrough' implant restores nerves in spine First time patients have regained leg movement and some ability to walk even when implant is turned off ...

The sciatica-associated elevations were seen in nerve roots on the side of affected legs and in spinal cord segments known to process sensory signals from the legs.