It takes a multidisciplinary approach to treat patients with SEA. From admission to rehabilitation, nurses play a major role in improving outcomes. They are responsible for reporting any change in ...

Spinal cord stimulators are designed to address back pain and can be used as part of a patient's treatment plan.

Common causes of SCI include trauma (car and bike accidents, falls, sports injuries); violence (gunshot wounds, assault); infections (meningitis, abscesses); diseases (spinal cord tumors ...

University of Queensland researchers have made a significant step towards enabling women with epilepsy safer access to a ...

Fortunately, severe complications, including spinal cord damage, vertebral cord hematoma, and epidural abscess (infection between the bones of the spine and the membrane of the spinal cord), are ...

A drug called bumetanide, which is used to treat edema in people, reduced this cellular swelling and resulting cell death in mice. Mice given the drug after an injury were better able to move their ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

Researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells. Mice given the treatment had improved recovery from ...

Our customer-facing platforms and websites (including Cambridge.org, Cambridge Core, Higher Education from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Open Engage, Cambridge Advance Online) are running as ...

Doctors use the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury when determining the classification of injuries. If there is ...

The spinal epidural space is the area between the spinal cord and the vertebral body ... 35% presented with thoracic epidural abscess, 30% had lumbar or lumbosacral abscesses, and 19% had cervical ...