Propriospinal neurons, whose axons never leave the spinal cord, aid in recovery after spinal cord injury—even when all axons from the brain have been damaged (pages 69–74). There are no proven ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Each year, approximately 17,810 new spinal cord injuries occur. This doesn’t include injuries that cause fatalities. Motor vehicle ...

By analyzing DNA and proteins in the blood of people with and without acute spinal cord injuries (SCIs), researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a novel blood ...

The treatment could expand the currently limited treatments available to people with spinal cord injuries. Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) caused by things like falls, sporting accidents and road ...

Between 250,000 and 500,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Such injuries have historically been considered to lack the ability to ...

The deficiency, called spinal cord injury-induced immune deficiency syndrome, was initially identified in experimental models. The findings of this study suggest the immune deficiency also likely ...

Anderson Cooper: This week on 60 Minutes, we're doing a story about efforts to help people who are paralyzed with severe spinal cord injuries develop the ability to walk again. And not just walk ...

Perris Jones, the Virginia running back who suffered a spinal cord injury during a game just under three weeks ago, walked out of a Louisville rehabilitation center Tuesday with a broad smile as ...

Many principles have been drawn from general prehospital care or in-hospital training courses. This article discusses sports prehospital-immediate care as a niche of general prehospital care, using ...

A paradigm shift in the way we treat spinal injuries is now in sight, with the world's first regenerative cell therapy being granted approval for a registrational Phase I clinical trial.