After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to ...

The picture shows a four-month-old scar in the spinal cord and blood-vessel-wall-derived cells in green. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 8, 2011, issue of Science ...

St John said; “Despite decades of worldwide research to find a treatment for spinal cord injury ... up the nerve bridge and place it over the scar and through the scar to the injury site.

After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to stabilize and protect it. But over time, too much scarring can prevent ...

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) have made a remarkable ...

Second, SCI healing is hampered by the inflammation, myelin-associated inhibitors, glial scar components and compromised ... complete transection of the spinal cord resulting in paraplegia.

That impact left Diane Lundmark, an active bicyclist and former adaptive volunteer ski instructor at Allina Health Courage ...

Tim Brodigan was told he wouldn't walk again after the 2017 Amtrak derailment near DuPont. Nearly 7 years later, he is able ...

Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns talked to a neurosurgeon at UPMC about the connection between the brain and spinal cord and when ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

New research shows that stimulation of the lumbosacral vertebrae region significantly elevated low blood pressure, unlike cervical or upper thoracic stimulation.