Spinal cord stimulation restores movement for people with 'muscle wasting' disorder
New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...
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Neurostimulation improves movement in adults with spinal muscle atrophy
A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.
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Spinal stimulation restored muscles wasted by rare genetic disorder
Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...
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A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...
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Spinal stimulation restored muscles wasted by rare genetic disorder
Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength ... muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away. The treatment increased leg muscle ...
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A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
Yet over the month-long pilot study, “they were getting better and better.” Spinal muscle atrophy or SMA is a genetic disease that gradually destroys motor neurons, nerve cells in the spinal ...
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Spinal stimulation restored muscles wasted by rare genetic disorder
Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves in the spinal cord appeared to help three people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away.