Doctors are warning about the unusual symptoms of a rare parasitic infection that is common in Hawaii. A New England woman ...

There appears to be limited evidence supporting the use of epidural steroid injections for certain types of chronic lower ...

In spinal stenosis, the injections appeared to reduce disability but not pain. Compared to those who didn’t receive ...

Multilevel decompression exhibited comparable postoperative outcomes with that of single-level decompression in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has developed a new systematic review to summarize for neurologists and other ...

More than 15 million people worldwide are living with spinal cord injury (SCI), which can affect their sensory and motor ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation.

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

In a small human trial in SMA patients neurostimulation sessions improved motoneuron function, reduced fatigue, and improved leg muscle strength and walking.