A high school teacher recounts how a seemingly unconnected sensation led to an unexpected diagnosis—that fortunately wasn't permanently damaging.

He thought he hurt his back doing yard work, but a scan led to a health crisis and surgery that was “almost like defusing a ...

When Teresa Janvrin retired in May 2023 from a long, successful teaching career at Warrensburg Middle School, life threw her its biggest challenge yet.

Get to know the rare disease Neurofibromatosis, starting from the symptoms, causes, to the risk factors for this genetic ...

Lumbar stenosis is a common spinal condition that affects millions of people, particularly older adults. It occurs when the spinal canal located in the lower back experiences narrowing, putting ...

Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, cancer with an unknown primary site, or renal cancer are at high risk for the development of SCC by metastatic tumor. Spinal cord ...

Since the pain was impacting his daily life, Steve Loutzenhiser went for an MRI and found out, at only 41 years old, he had a tumor in his spinal cord that could not be easily removed. His wife ...

He told them the mass was an ependymoma, a benign tumor that filled the diameter of Loutzenhiser’s spinal cord ... he had some muscle spasms and nerve pain in the vicinity of tumor, which ...