All patients had experienced acute spinal cord injuries in their neck region. This condition is known as tetraplegia and affects arm and hand movement. It can make simple everyday tasks ...

Support is growing for a rural Minnesota hockey teenager who broke his neck in a freak incident during a game in Canada last ...

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In a new study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated ...

An on-ice tragedy in Burnaby has left an American teen with a catastrophic spinal cord injury and an uncertain future.

Over the weekend, Jackson Drum was severely injured in a hockey game in Vancouver, Canada. The 17-year-old currently plays ...

A new FDA-approved device is bringing hope to people who have suffered spinal injuries and helping them regain function they ...

Spinal cord diseases are a heterogeneous group of conditions that cause damage or dysfunction of the spinal cord. They include infections, inflammatory disorders, vascular diseases and disorders ...

[2] Spinal cord compression constitutes a true emergency because the initial injury to the spinal cord will lead to permanent loss of neurologic function if the pressure of the tumor on the cord ...

A study published in Pain Reports adds a new piece to the puzzle, showing spinal disinhibition — disruption of the spinal cord’s inhibitory systems that modulate pain signals — in people ...