Surgeons love the OR, but occasionally, a sharp clinical diagnosis—especially a rare condition—can bring the same ...

Treatment with a spinal cord stimulation system reduced pain and restored sensory nerve function in a small cohort of ...

The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.

Thumb numbness is a symptom often attributed to a "pinched nerve" of the hand, wrist, or spine. In addition, numbness may be due to a disease or medications that cause demyelination (destruction of ...

The pain occurs when the mass of feces presses on the nerves in the lower back ... A person with a history of spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, or surgery on the colon may also be ...

You can divide up all the nerves in the body into roughly two parts: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system contains two organs—the brain and the ...

Adjustable beds provide ample support for the lumbar region and offer relief from back pain by reducing pressure on the spine, nerve swelling, and other factors that might affect lumbar muscles and ...

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) refers to damage caused anywhere on the spinal cord and its cells, including nerve cells, often resulting from car accidents, sports mishaps, and other traumas. Despite new ...