Meningitis is an inflammation of the fluid and three membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. The symptoms of viral and bacterial meningitis can be similar in the beginning.

Spinal stenosis exercise programs should be focused on improving spinal flexibility, strengthening the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities, and general overall conditioning to improve spinal ...

ALEXANDRIA — A fundraising rally will be held April 12 for a hockey player who suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury earlier this year. The rally for Jackson Drum will be held at Northstar ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental blood test might be able to help doctors predict whether someone will recover their mobility following a spinal cord injury. The test ...

thickness superiorly and inferiorly. The cervical spinal cord was found to be pushed dorsally by a ventral lesion. Though there was some thickening of the laminas very far laterally, no tissue was ...

The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves and supporting tissue that extends from the brain. It has an essential role in conducting motor and sensory information from and to the brain, as well as in ...

Using data from 25 studies over two decades, a new study published in the March 18, 2025 edition of The Journal of Pain Research has found that patient selection and innovation in the spinal cord ...

which we generated via editing the genomic locus of lineage-specific transcription factors and demonstrate that we can use this library to specifically target most individual neuronal hemilineages in ...

Scientists have analyzed blood samples from people who experienced acute spinal cord injuries (SCIs) and unaffected individuals, and have revealed biomarkers that can tell clinicians more about SCI ...

These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot respond to signals from the nerves, they atrophy — weaken and shrink — from inactivity. One in every 6,000 babies is born with ...