A tetraplegic patient with a severe cervical spinal cord injury recently regained the ability to hold a cup and drink independently after more than a decade of paralysis. This was thanks to a ...

Cervical spinal cord injuries (CSCI) present a formidable clinical challenge, often disrupting the neural pathways that govern respiratory function. This disruption can lead to diaphragmatic weakness ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Successful weaning occurred more often with low level injuries. Prior weaning attempts had failed for many ...

The prognosis for recovery from a spinal cord injury (SCI) is of great importance for those directly affected and those around them. So far, however, it has remained imprecise. Researchers from three ...

Researchers at Brown University have demonstrated that targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore both ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Change from baseline to 6 months in both patient groups were similar by Upper Extremity Measurement Scale scores ...

The results of the longitudinal study “Prognostic value of tissue bridges in cervical spinal cord injury” have the potential to change clinical practice. They have just been published in The Lancet ...

Before his disease took his voice, he could type a message as fast as anyone. Now, with electrodes no larger than a grain of ...

Research led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine along with scientists at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Berlin, Germany, provides first evidence ...

The following table summarizes the findings of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS, 2002) on studies of methylprednisolone treatment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gabriel Rodreick, stage name Freaque, suffered a cervical spinal cord injury, and now sings composes stories about "decay, ...