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

A new spinal cord implant may help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) regain some muscle function, giving the ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger - able to stand and walk more easily - ...

Jay Simpson's family and community are surrounding him in love after the little boy sustained a serious spinal surgery on Christmas Day.

The lumbar spine rests upon the sacrum. The place where they meet is called the lumbosacral joint, or L5-S1. Above and below each vertebra is an intervertebral disc. The disc serves as a shock ...

Newsweek spoke to mother Allyson Moulton, 37, who described her teenage daughter's medical condition as a "ticking bomb." ...

Actor Saif Ali Khan, assaulted at his Bandra home, underwent surgery to remove a knife lodged near his thoracic spine and to repair spinal fluid leakage. Further, he had deep wounds on his wrist ...

Saif’s wife, actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, and their children were reportedly unharmed during the incident. ALSO READ: Saif Ali Khan attacked: From fight with thieves to stabbing, here's what happened ...

He sustained severe injuries to the thoracic spinal cord, with a knife lodged in the spine. Emergency surgery was performed to remove the knife and repair the leaking spinal fluid. Additionally ...