Lumbar spinal stenosis self-care strategies including regular exercise, posture changes, and adopting healthy habits can help relieve back pain caused by narrowing spaces in the spinal canal. Lumbar ...

What Are the Treatments for Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people age 50 and older. Nothing can cure it, but there are ...

What Is a Spinal MRI? A spinal MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, uses powerful magnets, radio waves, and a computer to make clear, detailed pictures of your spine. The MRI may scan your whole ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) causes a specific type of damage, called demyelination, to the central nervous system, including the spinal cord. MS is a neurological disease. It causes the immune system ...

Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) causes a loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. It mainly affects facial and swallowing muscles and the muscles in the arms and legs ...

Her grandmother Armen was the heart and soul of the family, but it was likely her grandfather, 1968 PGA Champion Julius Boros, that passed on a passion for golf to Wolf, who's an Assistant ...

The word "myelopathy" means a problem with the spinal cord, which can lead to numbness, weakness, dysautonomia (group of conditions causing problems with involuntary movements), and more. There are ...

A spinal tap revealed she had extremely high levels of eosinophils, white blood cells that fight off parasites and other invaders. Doctors concluded she’d been infected with the parasitic worm ...

Scientists report results from a promising new approach to treat the rare neurodegenerative disorder. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before ...