A doctor warned against giving careless massages after a wife's neck rub left her husband paralysed. The patient 54, had ...

Learn the critical warning signs that distinguish between ordinary neck pain and potentially serious conditions requiring ...

Susac syndrome, characterized by a combination of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusions ... an incomplete sensory spinal cord syndrome at the T4 level, and gait ataxia.

Instagram has made chiropractic neck adjustments more appealing than ever before. But physicians say the maneuver could lead to a stroke.

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain ...

This time, the surgeons faced a greater challenge. A second, smaller chordoma was strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of the skull. After much discussion, the medical team had decided ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

But at 16, she she suffered a rare spinal cord stroke, leaving her paralyzed below the neck. The sudden change was devastating. “I actually walked into the emergency room,” she says.

Spinal stenosis is a common disease in clinical practice, and drug use is one of its potential predisposing factors. Alendronate, a widely used clinical drug for osteoporosis treatment, has the ...

Imaging shows regeneration of sensory axons four weeks after a spinal cord injury in an adult mouse injected with PDGF-BB at the lesion site. COLUMBUS, Ohio – Capitalizing on the flexibility of ...