Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

This implies that the metamere of the spinal cord and the 31 pairs of spinal nerves, which innervate striated muscles (myotomes) and skin (dermatomes), must be arranged as follows: seven cervical, 12 ...

decompressing spinal nerve roots, and improving spinal flexibility so that the back can move efficiently with less pain. Knees-to-Chest Stretch One of the easiest ways to relieve pain from spine ...

This is because each spinal nerve root—one on each side of the body—services a specific area of skin called a dermatome. When a shingles outbreak occurs, only that dermatome on that side of the body ...

MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more. MRI is a noninvasive diagnostic tool that uses radio waves and a magnetic field to produce detailed ...

I was being bed-bathed when a cheerful young doctor popped up to ask if he may insert his finger in my rectum (part of a test to rate my spinal nerve damage); the ‘chef’s kiss’ to my ...

A dermatome is an area of skin that a spinal nerve supplies. Spinal nerves branch off the spinal cord at different points along the spine. There are 31 pairs of different spinal nerves.

Spinal Cord ... spinal cord, the nerve cells barely changed their activity. Only a modest number of genes switched on or off, far fewer than expected from earlier studies on other neuron types, like ...

"The SynerFuse™ proof-of-concept study demonstrated the safety and feasibility of integrating direct nerve stimulation with ... neuromodulation with spinal decompression and fusion for the ...

A spinal cord injury is a life-altering event. The nerves inside the spinal cord have been damaged, therefore interrupting the flow of information from the brain to the body. For some patients, this ...