Pixabay Living with constant neck or back pain drains your energy, wrecks your sleep, and chips away at your focus.

Table 1. Symptoms of Spinal Cord Compression, by Tumor Location Location. Signs and Symptoms. Cervical spine. Headache or neck, shoulder, or arm pain. Breathing difficulties. Loss of sensation in ...

Spinal cord and nerves. The spinal cord is a cylinder of nerve tissue. Roughly the thickness of a finger, it extends from the skull to the lower back, traveling through the middle part of each stacked ...

Lumbar laminectomy is a spinal surgery that aims to relieve lower back pain by alleviating stenosis or other forms of nerve compression in the spinal canal. ... The spinal cord extends from the base ...

Limb tingling or numbness should not be ignored. These sensations may point to nerve issues. Spinal problems, carpal tunnel, ...

There are over 15 million people living with spinal cord injury (SCI) worldwide. Experimental treatments using electrical ...

A team of researchers at Rowan University has developed a groundbreaking injectable biomaterial that could significantly improve recovery outcomes following spinal cord injuries. The study, recently ...

Spinal cord stimulation was successful in 20 of 36 patients (56 percent); 14 had a score of 6 for the global perceived effect, and 18 had a visual-analogue score that was at least 50 percent ...

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) effectively relives pain and restores nerve function in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), according to the findings of a small study ...

Spinal cord injuries are described at various levels of "incomplete", which can vary from having no effect on the patient to a "complete" injury which means a total loss of function.

Spinal cord lesions are more commonly seen in progressive forms of multiple sclerosis, and they can result in an increased risk of disability. In relapsing-remitting MS, which 80 to 85 percent of ...