New research shows that stimulation of the lumbosacral vertebrae region significantly elevated low blood pressure, unlike cervical or upper ... with high-level spinal cord injury (SCI) using ...

Citation: Enhancing cardiovascular function with spinal cord transcutaneous stimulation in high-level spinal cord injury (2024, October 28) retrieved 24 November 2024 from https://medicalxpress ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

If an upper lumbar disc herniation is suspected, a femoral stretch test may be included in the evaluation. The patient is placed in a prone position, and the knee is maximally dorsiflexed.

A spinal abscess may cause local or radiating back pain, fever, and neurological symptoms. Early diagnosis and treatment are vital for improving a person’s outlook. A spinal cord abscess ...

Clinical exam and history must correlate with radiographic studies. For example, a patient with right leg pain that radiates across the dorsum of the foot to the great toe should have radiographic ...

He has expertise in the care of neck and back problems, including disc herniations, spinal stenosis, and degenerative conditions of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. His philosophy is grounded ...

Persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections cause almost all cervical cancers. These very common infections are contracted during sexual contact (including all genital contact with or without ...

Dr. Karamian is a spine surgeon at the University of Utah who manages all aspects of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine including stenosis, disc herniations, radiculopathy, myelopathy, deformity ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) comprises narrowing of the spinal canal with subsequent neural compression, and is frequently associated with symptoms of neurogenic claudication. To establish a ...

Peripheral and intraspinal feedback is required to shape and update the output of spinal networks that execute motor behavior. We report that lumbar dI2 spinal interneurons in chicks receive synaptic ...

The back has thirty-three bones, 31 pairs of nerves, forty muscles, and several tendons and ligaments. The spinal column has three different divisions of bones: the cervical bones (C), the thoracic ...