Cruz Mendez sustained a spinal cord injury when his mount, Imm Relentless, was fatally injured during a race on Saturday ...

James Cook University Hospital is introducing the equipment next month to improve patient outcomes.

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

People with spinal cord injuries often lose movement even though their brains still send the right signals. Researchers ...

On the mend. Flipping Out‘s Jeff Lewis is healing in the hospital after receiving surgery on his neck and spinal cord. During a recent episode of SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live, the Bravo personality, 50, ...

A 10-minute brain scan can predict the effectiveness of a risky spinal surgery to alleviate intractable pain. The result gives doctors a much-needed biomarker to discuss with patients considering ...

For generations, paralysis from a damaged spinal cord has been seen as permanent. Once the nerves were injured, the signals carrying movement from the brain to the body were lost forever. But ...

When Maranda Nyborg started feeling under the weather, she didn't think anything of it. It was October, and she usually caught something as the seasons changed. Nyborg, a Division I student athlete at ...

DERBY, Conn. - Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., is scheduled to undergo surgery Monday to treat spinal stenosis, but says she expects to return to Washington when Congress reconvenes in September. Dr.

Spinal cord stimulation “is effective for some but not for other patients, and effectiveness is usually evaluated in a short trial of a few days to two weeks prior to permanent implantation. Although ...