Back pain is one of the most common reasons Indians visit a doctor, and the vast majority of cases resolve without surgery.

Indicators of a response to radiation therapy include pain relief and a return to baseline function or improved function. Patients may experience some relief of symptoms within a few days after ...

Cervical myelopathy is the most common form of spinal cord injury in adults and causes hand weakness and diminished coordination. Surgery for cervical myelopathy is challenging due to uncertainty ...

Following a $13.48 million award from #DARPA, a @HopkinsMedicine team published the first proof-of-concept study that shows ...

A team of engineers and surgeons from Johns Hopkins Medicine has published its first proof-of-concept study that shows ...

With technology developed at UC Riverside, scientists can, for the first time, make high resolution images of the human spinal cord during surgery. The advancement could help bring real relief to ...

After nearly a year confined to a wheelchair due to severe cervical spinal cord damage, a 70-year-old man underwent a 5-hour ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

If you experience weakness and a loss of fine motor function in your arms and hands after neck trauma, you may have a spinal cord injury called central cord syndrome. This type of injury can disrupt ...