When a piece of hardware – like a screw – needs to be inserted into a patient’s spine, it’s important that it is placed in ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Spinal stenosis exercise programs should be focused on improving spinal flexibility, strengthening the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities, and general overall conditioning to improve spinal ...

Also known as paresthesia, it can stem from infections, spinal injuries, fibromyalgia, and other causes. Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a painful, itchy rash that typically develops on one side of ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

It’s hard to think that the world of stadium hard-rock had such little self-awareness playing underneath inflatable demons and shoddy pyrotechnics back in the day, but then a world before Spinal Tap ...

In vivo tracking of stem cells in brain & spinal cord lesions MRI detection as well as histological analysis demonstrated that grafted adult as well as embryonic stem cells labeled with SPIO ...

Michaels kept telling herself and everyone else that she was fine, but after six weeks of lower back pain worsening ... as she enlisted spine expert Dr. Stuart McGill, who found that she had ...

Together, the brain and spinal cord that extends from it make up the central nervous system, or CNS. What is the brain made of? Weighing about 3 pounds in the average adult, the brain is about 60% fat ...

Introduction: Spinal cord stimulation is emerging as a minimally invasive technique for treatment of persistent spinal pain syndrome (PSPS). Methods: We describe a case series of 25 individuals with ...

NT-containing neurons and NT receptors are widely distributed in the spinal dorsal horn (SDH), indicating their ... the sections were hybridized with 0.5 mg/ml DIG-labeled sense and anti-sense RNA ...

A lumbar puncture is used to take a sample of the cerebrospinal fluid from the lower back. This fluid flows around the spinal cord and the brain, and clears waste products. Levels of certain proteins ...