Nerves transmit messages between the brainand spinal cord and the rest of the body. Schwannomas are most often noncancerous nerve tumors, while neurofibrosarcomas are cancerous. Doctors don’t ...

As a high school teacher and baseball coach, Steve Loutzenhiser is used to an active life, describing himself as “super ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I felt like I was getting stabbed in the back between my shoulder blades,” he told KMOV. Since the pain was impacting his daily life, Steve Loutzenhiser went for an MRI and found out, at only 41 ...

It causes demyelination, where the immune system attacks the myelin sheath, a protective layer of fat around brain and spinal cord nerve cells. This prevents the nerves from sending impulses or ...

The team discovered that the tumor specifically reprograms the neurons for its own benefit. In mice, blocking nerve function inhibited cancer growth and increased the sensitivity of tumor cells to ...

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally silent motor neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle strength and ...