Neural foraminal stenosis causes nerve irritation and compression when the space a spinal nerve travels through narrows. Understand its symptoms, causes, and treatments.

Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 is a genetic disorder that typically appears within the first six months of life, causing ...

This is the part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. The onset of GBS can be quite sudden and unexpected. It needs immediate hospitalization. It can develop over a few days. Or it ...

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 ...

Spasticity was assessed using the Modified Ashworth Scale, Tardieu Scale, Spinal Cord Assessment Tool for Spastic Reflexes, and a patient self-evaluation with a visual analog scale. Muscle atrophy was ...

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 ...

"Human spinal circuitry is very sophisticated -- it's not just a bunch of reflexes controlled by the brain," neuroscientist Susan Harkema, who is now with the nonprofit Kessler Foundation ...

Stryker has agreed to sell its U.S. spinal implants business to Viscogliosi Brothers to create a newly formed company called VB Spine. The medical technology company said Tuesday the New York City ...

Here, we performed loss- and gain-of-function experiments in Xenopus laevis to reveal the novel roles of these proteins in spinal cord development and regeneration. We show that Marcks and Marcksl1 ...

Spinal stimulation is a promising method to restore motor function after impairment of descending pathways. While paresis, a weakness of voluntary movements driven by surviving descending pathways, ...