Michael Markmiller was in excruciating pain for years. The 53-year-old couldn’t walk more than 100 meters without his legs ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

The neurologist explains the link between Guillain-Barre Syndrome and paralysis, and the initial symptoms to watch out for.

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

It’s a position no one wants to be in. You have sharp, debilitating pain. This is not your standard muscle tightness. This ...

Technology if anything has worsened the situation, said Dr. Sidney Pruitt, a Cleburne chiropractor. “We call it tech neck and we see it in a lot of younger kids,” Pruitt said. “When we look at their X ...

Researchers reported a spine-stimulating implant might aid neurodegenerative diseases like spinal muscle atrophy.

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

A neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist discover promising new ways to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again ...

How many of us get up in the morning and virtually struggle to get out of bed as the body feels sore, the neck remains stiff, knees wobble, shoulders and feet pain? In fact, the entire day is ...

An experimental treatment that stimulates the spinal cord may help people with a paralyzing genetic disorder called spinal muscular atrophy.

Nerves send messages between your brain and the rest of your body. The nerves in your neck and back branch off of the spinal cord, exit the spinal canal between vertebrae (the bones of your spine), ...