Nerve cells in the spinal cord do not regenerate easily and scar tissue forms quickly, blocking the regrowth of nerve fibers. Current treatments for SCI focus on managing symptoms, preventing further ...

In other words, a non-painful stimulus – like when you rub your shin after walking into a table – can overtake slower pain ...

Injuries to the spinal cord cause severe and irreparable disabilities. For many years, scientists have been trying to find ways to reconnect the damaged spinal nerve fibers. The idea of using ...

Spinal cord injuries, nerve damage from a stroke ... type of immune cell in mice that triggers repair and regrowth of nerve fibers. These special healing cells are in our own bone marrow and ...

A neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist discover promising new ways to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses ... inputs from sensory nerves -- fibers that return the information from skin and ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally silent motor neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle strength and ...

New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle ...