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.

People with incomplete cervical spinal cord injuries showed improvements to their hand and arm movements after receiving a targeted form of vagus nerve stimulation ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. A spinal cord ...

As the first regenerative clinical trial globally employing a subtype-specific neural progenitor cell therapeutic product to treat spinal cord injury, the study will be led by the Third Affiliated ...

She's defying the odds after a spinal cord injury in 2020 left her with less than a three percent chance of moving anything below her neck. Wachtel said the plan to stand had been in the works for ...

SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. - "It's a tough road. I've done a lot of hard stuff. This is the toughest yet," said Todd Gladfelter. As many of us know, life can change in an instant. "I fell off a roof ...

Anderson Cooper: This week on 60 Minutes, we're doing a story about efforts to help people who are paralyzed with severe spinal cord injuries develop the ability to walk again. And not just walk ...

After a yoga injury led to slipped discs, a U.K. woman is struggling with symptoms of early cauda equina syndrome, a spinal ...

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