UT Dallas researchers paired rehab with vagus nerve stimulation to help people with spinal cord injuries regain arm and hand ...

Your spinal cord is a glistening white bundle of ... Depending on where the spinal nerves branch off, they supply different parts of your body: Cervical region: supplies the back of your head ...

Your spinal cord needs a steady blood supply to function properly. This helps it send nerve impulses to the rest of your body. The impulses are like signals or messages that help you with vital ...

Acute spinal cord injury (SCI ... extends beyond what can explained by inactivity or denervation (loss of nerve supply) alone. Research sheds new light and decodes early muscle loss after SCI ...

Without adequate blood supply, the spinal cord does not receive the oxygen and nutrients required to function. This can cause severe back pain, limb weakness, and loss of nerve sensation.

By early adulthood, the blood supply to the disk has stopped ... causing pressure on the spinal cord or the nerves that radiate from it. This may result in extreme pain. In the beginning, there ...

In tests on rats, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have developed a treatment that helps spinal cord nerves regrow after injury. The findings will be published in the ...

Pressure on the spinal cord causes the nerves in the spinal cord to swell and slows down or blocks their blood supply. This stops the nerves working normally. Cancer in the spinal bones can cause ...

Directly applying red-light therapy to a damaged spinal cord protects and regenerates nerve cells, leading to a return of motor and sensory function, according to new research. The treatment could ...

In this study, published in the journal Nature on May 21, individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury safely received a combination of stimulation of a nerve in the neck with progressive ...

In an official statement released by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, researchers stated that the new hydrogel boosts nerve regrowth following spinal cord injury in animals.

Pairing targeted vagus nerve stimulation with physical therapy seems to help people who are partially paralysed from spinal cord injuries regain the ability to perform some everyday activities ...