Brooklyn Aleksic is a Canadian student-athlete with a bright future who is now paralyzed from the neck down, after being ...

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 ...

Phase Ib trial, ANDECA-HO, assessing the humanised antibody, andecaliximab, in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients at risk of ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fast-progressing neurodegenerative disease with an average survival time of three years and no effective treatments. In ALS, motor neurons in the spinal cord, ...

Anderson Cooper: Spinal cord stimulators may show some promise in helping people with Parkinson's Disease. It's still very early clinical trials. But it's helping people regain a certain amount of ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A new spinal cord implant may help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) ...

Spinal cord stimulation restores neural function, targets key feature of progressive neurodegenerative disease Date: February 5, 2025 Source: University of Pittsburgh Summary: Boosting ...

The authors further noted that while SCS is being studied as an assistive neuroprosthetic tool to improve movement after spinal cord injury, stroke, and other neurodegenerative diseases ...

Held in the backdrop of Spinal Cord Injury Day -- and marking the conclusion of the fourth edition of National Injury Prevention Week (September 1-7) -- the programme was graced by the presence of ...

Neuroscientists have used a nanosized sensor to record spinal cord neurons in free-moving mice, a feat that could lead to the development of better treatments for spinal cord disease and injury.