This content was originally produced for audio. Certain elements, such as tone, sound effects, and music, may not fully capture the intended experience in textual representation. Therefore, the ...

New Rochelle, NY, September 26, 2023—A special focus issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Neurotrauma highlights the latest findings of the North American Clinical Trials Network (NACTN), aimed at ...

Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) patients lose body weight and muscle mass, despite being on a high-calorie diet while in the intensive care unit. Their muscle wasting is substantial and extends beyond ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome, Bell’s palsy, acute flaccid myelitis and transverse myelitis are not polio “renamed”, despite claims posted online. The four “syndromes” are names for groupings of symptoms – ...

Nerve pathways in the spinal cord can be damaged or severed after an accident or serious injury, a condition known as paraplegia. Depending on where the injury is located, different parts of the body ...

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 ...

New findings have called into question the recommended clinical practice of augmenting blood pressure early after acute spinal cord injury (SCI). In a randomized clinical trial, augmenting blood ...

Tethered spinal cord syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where the spinal cord is attached, or tethered, to the tissues around the spine. This tethering of the spinal cord restricts its movements ...

MetroHealth has cut the median time to surgery for patients with acute spinal cord injuries to 7.63 hours — 14.44 hours faster than the median national average, one of its leaders told Becker’s. The ...