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A noninvasive therapy delivering gentle spinal stimulation was shown to slow disease progression and extend survival in an ...

Spinal cord stimulation is a newer option for addressing moderate to severe pain related to the condition.High serum glucose levels damage nerves, leading to numbness and burning or stabbing pain.

Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The ...

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, ...

Spinal cord injuries can disrupt communication between the brain and the nerves of the spinal cord that control the bladder and bowel. This can result in a neurogenic bladder or neurogenic bowel.

Tethered spinal cord syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where the spinal cord is attached, or tethered, to the tissues around the spine. This tethering of the spinal cord restricts its ...

July 12 (UPI) --An investigational cancer drug has been shown to help regenerate damaged nerves after spinal trauma with "remarkable recovery" of sensory and motor functions in animals, British ...

The median nerve begins in the spinal cord's upper section, known as the cervical spine. Several nerves that travel to the arms and hands, including the median nerve, form a bundle of nerves in an ...

ALS can eventually affect the lateral motor nerves at all levels across the spinal cord. A 2020 study found that the condition caused the most significant atrophy, or loss of tissue, in the upper ...