A Swiss research center is trying to use innovative technology to help restore bodily functions for paralyzed patients—and even help Parkinson's patients walk smoothly again.

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

SAN DIEGO — Treatment with a spinal cord stimulation system reduced pain and restored sensory nerve function in a small cohort of individuals with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, according to a ...

A woman who had a spinal cord stimulator implanted in 2020 is suing devicemaker Boston Scientific and the FDA over complications she experienced with the device. Dena Lawler received the Spectra ...

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 ...

Scientists at UC San Diego are looking into the body's healing mechanisms for clues on recovery from spinal cord injury. A new study by researchers in the Department of Neurobiology (School of ...

Next Steps Chicago in Willow Springs is a non-profit rehabilitation facility and among the first in the country to use the spinal cord stimulation technology called Arc-Ex. Stream NBC 5 for free ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...

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 ...