Elle Yona went from performing as a competitive high school dancer and learning to drive, to being paralyzed from the neck down.

TOKYO, Japan — 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.

[TOKYO] 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. There is ...

Patients with spinal cord injuries sometimes see their motor function improve through rehabilitation. But only about 10 percent of them see a recovery of two levels from the lowest rank of A.

TOKYO -- A compound that enhances neural transmission in the brain has been found to promote recovery from paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries in monkeys, a Japanese research team recently ...

Today, he is recovering at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Ga., which specializes in spinal cord injuries. He just started physical therapy and is thankfully seeing some unexpected progress ...