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. A spinal cord ...

What is an acute spinal cord injury? Your spine is made of many bones called vertebrae. Your spinal cord runs downward through a canal in the center of these bones. The spinal cord is a bundle of ...

Researchers have identified the lateral hypothalamus (LH) as a key brain region for walking recovery in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients, demonstrating that deep brain stimulation (DBS) can ...

Our Spinal Cord Injury Program specializes in caring for spinal cord injury patients immediately after the injury and during rehabilitation and recovery. We offer treatment options that are unique in ...

The American Spinal Injury Association Impairment (ASIA) impairment scale is what’s used to measure spinal cord injury severity — here’s what it looks like: Grade A: Complete sensory or ...

The Delivery of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells for Spinal Cord Injury: Evaluation of a Novel Device (DOSED) clinical study is an open label, multi-center, device safety study, in 3-5 subacute and ...

OPC1 is designed to replace or support cells in the spinal cord that are absent or dysfunctional ... chronic subjects with complete (ASIA Impairment Scale A) or incomplete (ASIA Impairment Scale ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

Mike Kelly, chief executive officer (CEO) of NervGen explained how the burden of spinal cord injury (SCI) remains significant on medical, economic, and social fronts. “Each year, around 500,000 people ...

“Spinal cord injury is a complex condition ... cells 22 months after their injuries and improved one level on the ASIA scale after treatment. Two of three patients with complete injuries ...