Discover how text neck syndrome damages your spine, causes chronic pain, and leads to permanent posture problems from smartphone use.

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating, debilitating, and life-altering condition that currently lacks a definitive cure or highly effective treatment ...

Figures 1 & 2: X-rays showing bone spurs (as marked by arrows ... In order to continue improving outcomes in treatment, HSS spinal surgeons are also looking at ways to optimize bone tissue formation, ...

6b00676. PCA for the four analytic modes (Figure S1); permutation test for the four established OPLS-DA models (Figure S2); subgroup analysis regarding histological types of osteophyte samples (Figure ...

Objectives Ochronotic spondyloarthropathy represents one of the main clinical manifestations of alkaptonuria (AKU); however, prospective data and description of the effect of nitisinone treatment are ...

A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket. This was the first time ...

Background Clinical decision rules (CDRs) are commonly used to guide imaging decisions in cervical spine injury (CSI) assessment despite limited evidence for their use in paediatric populations. We ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully removed a rare cancerous tumor wrapped around the spine and spinal cord ...

Neurosurgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore successfully removed a spinal cord tumor through a woman’s eye socket in a landmark case, the Washington Post reported May 4.

This time, the surgeons faced a greater challenge. A second, smaller chordoma was strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of the skull. After much discussion, the medical team had decided ...