When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis.

A life-changing therapy being used at a small rehabilitation clinic in suburban Chicago is giving new hope to people with spinal cord injuries.

Interventional pain management uses special tools and techniques to diagnose and treat pain, especially when regular methods like medicine or physical therapy fail to provide adequate relief.

Treatment with a spinal cord stimulation system reduced pain and restored sensory nerve function in a small cohort of ...

Research supports the effectiveness of a kinesiology-based method to treat lower back pain, say study authors working in ...

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a leading biomechanics expert who has helped thousands break free from lower back pain. The program's core method, Targeted Spinal Release, promises to deliver relief in as little as 7 days by ...

I now come with a remote control and a charger; I have a spinal cord stimulator, and it’s amazing ... still getting used to the metal box on my back and the moments when I get random electric ...

There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. WGN's Dina Bair brings you the story on this edition of Medical Watch. Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military ...

about one in four Americans is dealing with low back pain. For muscles or tendons, rest and physical therapy can help. However, good solutions have been harder to find for the spinal column itself.

Background: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) utilizing time-dynamic pulses (TDPs) is an emergent field of neuromodulation that continuously and automatically modulates pulse parameters. We previously ...