Spinal cord stimulators have grown in popularity over the past several years as patients see benefits in the less-invasive ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury. The ...

Doctors use the American Spinal ... cord injury.The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research ...

The neuro-oncology team at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and UW Medicine has a wide breadth of expertise in both primary brain cancers and in brain and spinal cord metastases. At the Fred Hutch Brain and ...

Onward’s Arc-IM Lumbar Lead was used in its first human patient, the company said March 26. Dr. Jocelyn Bloch performed the ...

Robotics and Spinal ... human stem cell models which contain notochord -- a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build the spine and nervous ...

Spina bifida is a congenital defect in which an infant's spine and spinal cord do not close or develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine. One of every 3,000 newborns is believed to have ...

The human spine is a marvelous structure consisting ... bend and twist – all while protecting your spinal cord, the communications highway that threads a vast network of nerves from your brain ...

Tests in live animal and human cadaver models ... gain information from the whole spine, by wrapping very thin, high-resolution implants around the spinal cord's circumference.