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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 ...

A novel PET technique that visualizes spinal cord injuries provides critical information about which patients may be able to regain mobility, according to new research. This is according to new ...

For more photos, visit CU.messengernews.net DES MOINES — Fort Dodge senior Koy Davidson suffered a compression fracture to his T4 through T8 vertebrae during his semifinal match at the state ...

For central lesions, wild-type and spastin knockout mice underwent spinal cord dorsal hemisection at the T8 level using a micro-feather ophthalmic scalpel (#72045-45, Delta Microscopes). For ...

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 ...

Early Saturday morning, the Fort Dodge Messenger reported that Davidson suffered a compression fracture to his T4-through-T8 vertebrae and would not be able to compete in the finals. Davidson was ...