DISH and AS are different diseases and usually don't affect the ... Bone spurs that press on nerves of the spine can cause numbness or weakness in the legs. Bony growths in the neck could cause ...

DISH, which is also sometimes called Forestier’s disease, occurs when ligaments and tendons harden and form painful bone spurs. AS causes inflammation in the joints and ligaments of the spine.

Metabolic syndrome affects more than 58% of patients with psoriatic arthritis and is correlated with “degenerative and ...

spherical clumps of human nerve cells that grow in a dish. The team coaxed each organoid to resemble one specific type of brain or spinal tissue found along the pain pathway. "And then we put them ...

we could develop better treatments for spinal cord disease and injury," said Yu Wu, a research scientist who is part of a team of Rice University neuroengineers working on a solution to this problem.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.

The findings, published Feb. 5 in the journal Nature Medicine, suggest that spinal stimulation could be a new tool for treating SMA and other muscle-wasting diseases. SMA affects motor neurons ...