grading scale to help you understand your diagnosis. Your vertebrae (stack of small bones that create your spine) are known by a type and number. While a function chart may suggest that you can define ...

According to a small 2023 study, patients diagnosed with MS who did not have spinal cord involvement within 2 years of diagnosis were less likely to experience MS-associated disability within 5 ...

Researchers have used genetic tools to investigate how specific nerve cells in the brain respond after a spinal cord injury.

Spinal cord compression (SCC ... nurses may encounter SCC in any practice serving patients with a cancer diagnosis. An APN may see patients with SCC in an ambulatory clinic, the emergency ...

Elle Yona went from performing as a competitive high school dancer and learning to drive, to being paralyzed from the neck down.

More information: Sara Goltash et al, An optogenetic mouse model of hindlimb spasticity after spinal cord injury, Experimental Neurology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2025.115157 Journal ...

The diagnosis of myelopathy involves imaging studies and nerve conduction studies such ... your healthcare provider may recommend surgery to help ease compression of the spinal cord. Myelopathy refers ...

This allows us to reliably trigger the neural circuits potentially responsible for spasticity after spinal cord injury," explains Tuan Bui, Chair and Professor in the Department of Biology at uOttawa.