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

They then access the facet joint to remove one or both and release pressure on the spinal nerve. Typical surgery takes 1–2 hours and may require 1–2 days in the hospital. If a surgeon uses a ...

If you have back pain that’s not responding to typical treatments ... Epidural steroid injections may help relieve pain caused by spinal nerve problems, such as: pinched nerve herniated disk ...

Occipital neuralgia is a condition in which the nerves that run from ... a CT or MRI scan to look at your spine if your doctor thinks your case isn’t typical. If your doctor suspects you ...

The spinal cord houses millions of nerve cells that link the brain to ... For example, cervical spondylotic myelopathy arises from the typical degenerative changes that occur in the spine as ...

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

Spinal nerve stimulators use electrical pulses to block the pain signal to the brain. They've been used for decades, but previous models were bulky and needed frequent charging. This summer ...

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 ...