Metastases to the spinal column are diagnosed in around 16% of all people with cancer and may cause pain, vertebral collapse and spinal cord or root compression. More than 4,000 people present ...

To assess the efficacy of posterior spinal shortening for paraparetic patients following vertebral collapse owing to osteoporosis, especially on instrumentation loosening. Upon final observation, nine ...

Your spinal cord has nerves that send signals or messages back and forth between your brain and the rest of your body. Spinal cord compression occurs when a mass places pressure on the cord. A mass ...

Spinal decompression is a type of treatment for back pain. Decompression can be done both surgically and non-surgically. With both treatments, the goal is to stretch your spine and change its position ...

Transverse myelitis is spinal cord inflammation causing damage to the covering of nerve cell fibers. It can occur by itself or as a symptom of an immune disease of the nervous system like MS. Share on ...

Neurosurgeon to the Spinal Injuries Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital and Departments of Neurosurgery, Royal North Shore and Dalcross Private Hospitals, Sydney, Australia Centre for Health, Exercise ...

Degenerative cervical spondylosis is a chronic, progressive deterioration of osseocartilaginous components of the cervical spine that is most often related to aging. Radiographic evidence of ...

A study has found a link between COVID-19 and a rare neurological condition called acute transverse myelitis About 43 COVID-19 patients from 21 different countries exhibited features of ATM and its ...