In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required no strong painkillers to manage their pain. In some ...

commonly prescribed for nerve pain, prevented the damaging metabolic effects of spinal cord injury. Gabapentin inhibits a ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle ...

New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

The spinal cord bladder and bowel reflex arc is damaged in patients with injuries to the cauda equina, lumbar and sacral segments below the conus medullaris. Patients do not typically transition to an ...

Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD Neurons are the cells in our body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. The ability to move or feel the world ...

Hyperrelexic, overactive or spastic bladder or bowels occur with spinal cord injury at or above T12. The primary characteristic of this type of injury is increased organ spasms. The UMN bladder may ...

With normal spinal inhibition, the H-reflex response should have become smaller with repetition as the spinal cord regulates nerve activity ... known to affect neural transmission and could ...

In a small human trial in SMA patients neurostimulation sessions improved motoneuron function, reduced fatigue, and improved leg muscle strength and walking.

electrodes that were placed in the lower back region on each side of the spinal cord, directing the stimulation exclusively to sensory nerve roots. Testing sessions lasted four hours each and were ...