The spine (backbone) encloses and protects the spinal cord. The primary role of the spinal cord in the nervous system is to relay sensory, motor, and autonomic messages between the brain and the ...

Your spinal cord is a glistening white bundle of nerves, which runs from your brain down a canal in your backbone. It's roughly 40cm long and about as wide as your thumb for most of its length.

Otherwise, the infection may cause irreversible damage to your backbone and the areas around ... but this only happens if your spinal cord has also been compressed. The doctor will then look ...

the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows because of arthritis, bone spurs, or other problems.

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Discover the crucial early indicators of serious spine damage, understand when back pain signals an emergency, and learn ...

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have generated human stem cell models which, for the first time, contain notochord—a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system ...

The neuro-oncology team at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and UW Medicine has a wide breadth of expertise in both primary brain cancers and in brain and spinal cord metastases. At the Fred Hutch Brain and ...

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 ...

CHUV / Gilles Weber A man paralyzed in 2011 has regained the ability to stand and walk with the help of implants placed in his brain and spinal cord. The patient, 40-year-old Gert-Jan Oskam of the ...

So, two years ago, Gauthier, who lives in a French region famous for its winemaking, volunteered to be the first person ever to receive a spinal cord stimulator designed to treat Parkinson's.

Courtine, and his colleague, the neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, now felt confident that they could deploy the technologies to help patients with spinal cord injuries get back on their feet again.