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Individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury safely received a combination of stimulation of a nerve in the neck with progressive, individualized rehabilitation. This approach, called closed ...
Impaired neuromusculoskeletal function due to conditions such as stroke, osteoarthritis, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, limb amputation, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and cancer ...
In this study, published in the prestigious journal Nature on May 21, individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury safely received a combination of stimulation of a nerve in the neck with ...
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. Because the brain ...
They said I broke my spine. I’ve got a C5 and C6 spinal cord injury.” Kobe was flown to OU Medical in Oklahoma City for treatment where he began the long road to recovery. To help keep family ...
[2] Spinal cord compression constitutes a true emergency because the initial injury to the spinal cord will lead to permanent loss of neurologic function if the pressure of the tumor on the cord ...
Police said the 17-year-old had been crossing the road in his wheelchair when he was struck by a male riding an e-scooter. He was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for treatment. Officers said ...
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 ...
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 ...
She was now wheelchair-bound with paralysis in each ... and the only way really to stop any pressure on the spinal cord was to remove those cysts, or fuse those bones so they didn’t grow back ...