Credit: Unsplash/ Kelly Sikkema. Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare but serious neurological condition that impacts the ...

Your spinal cord can make its own memories independent of your brain, neuroscientists have found. The discovery opens up new ...

If youve experienced physical trauma and have trouble moving your neck you may have a spinal cord injury Here’s what to do ...

Hyporeflexia is the reduction or absence of the body's normal reflexes. It is caused by the disruptions of signals from nerve cells of the spinal cord (called motor neurons) to skeletal muscles ...

New research from the University of Western Ontario (ON, Canada) has found that the spinal cord may be ‘smarter’ than originally thought. As well as playing an important role in the pain reflex and ...

An unparalleled opportunity for the study of long-surviving patients with traumatic lesions of the spinal cord has been afforded by World War II, and knowledge of the reflex functions of the cord ...

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 ...

The health provider will use tools such as lights, reflex hammers ... which captures nerve activity from the brain or spinal cord to a peripheral nerve such as in the arm or leg.

A reflex action follows this general sequence ... Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons connect sensory neurons ...

and improved sensory recovery and urinary reflex restoration. The regenerative effects observed with ExoPTEN in the severe spinal cord transection model suggest that it may also have therapeutic ...