Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

Motor improvements in SMA adults treated with Spinraza paralleled a boost in electrical impulses along nerves that supply ...

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 ...

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.

Disc herniation at L5-S1 is also possible and is a common cause of sciatica—a problem with the sciatic nerve that can cause pain and other issues. Discs separate the vertebrae (spinal bones), ...

Migraine headaches: Migraines may cause ear pain. It is hypothesized that the ear pain is due to nerve innervation from both cranial and spinal nerves. Treating the migraine pain often results in ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

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 ...

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 ...