Researchers have identified a bone-driven signaling pathway that may explain how spinal degeneration leads to chronic pain.

Organoids modeled on the structure of the human spinal cord have been shown to match the behavior of an injured spine. Now, a treatment that has worked well in mice has been applied to the organoids, ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed the most advanced organoid model for human spinal cord injury to date. In a ...

Neurites include axons, which are often severed during spinal cord injuries. When axons are cut, communication between ...

A pinched nerve in the spinal region is a common yet often misunderstood condition that affects a significant portion of the population at some point in their lives. This condition not only causes ...

If you’ve ever felt aches or pains that radiate down your legs, you may have been dealing with sciatic nerve pain. The sciatic nerve is the biggest in your body and starts in your back and goes down ...

Dr. Lacy Anderson explains that pain radiating from the back or neck down the arm is often caused by a pinched or irritated ...

Patient care at Neurosurgery Services of CMA goes well beyond precision surgery at the Cayuga Medical Center operating rooms and can include treating neck and back pain with physical therapy, pain ...

Three people who were completely paralysed from the waist down due to spinal cord injuries can now walk while using wheeled walking frames or crutches for support, thanks to implants that electrically ...

After a traumatic motorcycle collision in 2017, Michel Roccati was left completely paralyzed from the waist down. He couldn’t have imagined that a few years later, he would be walking through the ...

Various nerves control bladder and bowel function, including the spinal cord, cauda equina, pudendal nerves, and the enteric nervous system, a nerve network in the walls of the digestive tract. These ...