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

and sensation in patients with chronic tetraplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury. Unlike the feasibility study with the ARC-BCI, the Up-LIFT trial did not include a brain chip component.

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 ...

For people with spinal cord injuries/diseases (SCI/D), performing daily tasks can be a challenge due to an impaired ability to grasp and manipulate objects with their hands.

A single shot of stem cells may hold the cure for people paralyzed by a spinal cord injury. Stem cell scientist Hideyuki Okano from Keio University in Japan has just announced that a fully ...

(Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) Neither Bloch nor Courtine began their careers trying to find treatments for spinal cord injury. Bloch has long been interested in restoring motor function to people ...

A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal-cord injury. The Japanese man was one of four individuals in a first-of-its-kind trial ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS) maintains this Information Network as a resource to promote knowledge in the areas of research, health and quality ...

Patna: Spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs mostly in young ... where a person is unable to breathe properly, head tilt and chin lift, followed by bag-mask ventilation, can be beneficial.