An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

A spinal cord injury occurs when there's damage to the ... Seek immediate medical assistance to ensure proper evaluation and treatment. Stabilise the neck: If available, use a cervical collar ...

A charity has unveiled plans to create a garden space for patients with spinal injuries, to help aid their recovery. Horatio's Garden are set to begin work on an outdoor area and garden room at the ...

We were able to achieve results in the world's first spinal cord injury treatment using iPS cells. There were difficult days when research using iPS cells did not produce results, but this ...

Treatment with a spinal cord stimulation system reduced pain and restored sensory nerve function in a small cohort of ...

They claim it is the first successful case of patients with spinal cord injury recovering motor function using iPSC treatments. There are about 5,000 new cases of spinal cord injuries every year in ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. Applying low ...

Wisconsin Public Radio Advocates for patients with spinal cord injuries are raising alarm over a $40 million research program ...

She received treatment for the latter ... Dr. Melita Theyagaraj, who serves as a physician on the spinal cord injury unit at the University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Institute ...

Favorable response to treatment directly correlates with ... constitutes a true emergency because the initial injury to the spinal cord will lead to permanent loss of neurologic function if ...

The ability to harness peripheral neural stem cells could have far-reaching implications for the treatment of ...

“Utilizing similar technology, this test is truly an example of personalized medicine in traumatic injury.” The blood test can be used to steer spinal cord patients to treatments that will best serve ...