Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

or inflammation impacting the spinal cord or the structures around it. Depending on its severity and the extent of damage, a major injury can lead to impaired coordination, loss of reflexes ...

Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...

Five men were completely flaccid, and no reflex ... the spinal cord with a gap between the scarred ends. Involuntary movements of the lower extremities were first noted 20 days after injury ...

It acts both pre- and postsynaptically to inhibit spinal reflexes. Baclofen is rapidly ... has been used safely and effectively. A baclofen withdrawal syndrome can occur with rapid cessation ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...