[2] Spinal cord compression constitutes a true emergency because the initial injury to the spinal cord will lead to permanent loss of neurologic function if the pressure of the tumor on the cord ...

An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

This compression of the spinal cord can lead to a loss of sensation ... caused by neurodegenerative diseases or a traumatic spinal injury. Many nonsurgical treatments can often be just as ...

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. Applying low ...

Fever, antecedent infection, injury or previous episodes were ... symptomatic without spinal-cord compression but with pain; subjective and objective signs of spinal-cord compression; and ...

Experiencing a spinal cord injury is life-changing in nearly every aspect of a person’s well-being: physically, emotionally, and socially. The initial shock of the injury often comes with fear, ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS) maintains this Information Network as a resource to promote knowledge in the areas of research, health and quality ...

Picture: A person with a complete C4 level of injury is paralyzed from the shoulders down. The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides this website as an auxiliary ...

He hit his head when he fell but suffered no brain injury, she said. The spinal cord was another story. “It was not severed, but it was injured, and was injured at the top of his spinal cord ...

[10] It is important to ask the patient whether the pain is present when he or she is lying down, because SCC, unlike strain or old injury, causes pain that is unrelieved or increased in the ...