Grace Moriarty, a University of Connecticut junior and a Southport resident, raised over $20,000 of the funds by running the ...

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 ... A physical therapist can give you exercises to ...

Each day, when Dr. Paul Krabbenhoft meets with someone with a spinal cord injury, his patients are relieved to see him. Although some of his patients will walk out of the center, many face the ...

A Charlottetown physiotherapist, who retired after more than 30 years in the industry, vowed to give back when she stepped ...

Early exercise intervention during the acute phase of inpatient rehabilitation ... The data arising from this trial will be submitted for publication and presented at conferences (International Spinal ...

Medicare may cover the implantation of a spinal cord stimulator as a therapy for chronic intractable pain. Chronic intractable pain refers to persistent pain that doesn’t respond to traditional ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) can result in profound paralysis and weakness that limit a person ... that form part of the ISNCSCI or scores on the Spinal Cord Independence Measure or the Functional ...

“The way I think of a spinal cord stimulator is sort of like a pacemaker for pain,” said Dr. Erika Petersen, professor of Neurosurgery, director of Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery at the ...

[2] Spinal cord compression constitutes a true emergency because the initial injury to the spinal cord will lead to permanent loss of neurologic function if the pressure of the tumor on the cord ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord is a promising strategy for reestablishing walking after spinal cord injury, recent studies show. But for patients suffering from muscle spasms, the ...