Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that causes compression of the spinal cord and/or nerve roots. Resulting pain and numbness (in the hands, arms, legs, and/or feet) can vary depending ...

Cancers that spread to the spine move to the bone marrow of the vertebral column by way of blood vessels. Spinal cord compression can also occur through direct tumor extension, which is frequently ...

Spinal fusion surgery to fuse a severely slipped vertebra with the vertebra below it and restore stability to the spinal column. Minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD) procedure. Most of our ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — Using neural stem cells could help treat spinal injuries once thought to be untreatable -- a new phase 1 trial has determined this approach is ... How Breast Cancer Cells Survive ...

Methods: Twenty healthy women volunteered for the study. The maximum isometric force of the neck extensor muscles was measured with the thoracic support located at five different levels. The highest ...

Your nervous system is made up of two main parts: the brain and the spinal cord, which combine to form the central nervous system; and the sensory and motor nerves, which form the peripheral nervous ...

Several techniques are under development for image-guidance in particle therapy. Positron (β +) emission tomography (PET) is in use since many years, because accelerated ions generate ...