Ninety percent of paralyzed patients regained strength or function in their upper limbs after receiving an experimental therapy, a new study found. After receiving spinal cord simulation from ONWARD ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries. Their study, published today in ...

Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A ...

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the ...

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. An intervention, ...

EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands & LAUSANNE, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ONWARD Medical N.V. (Euronext: ONWD), the medical technology company creating innovative therapies to restore movement, ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

Doctors from Yale successfully demonstrated a potential precursor for a paralysis cure following spinal cord injuries. The researchers collected stem cells from the bone marrow of patients suffering ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Key Takeaways The lumbar spine includes five vertebrae that help with mobility and stability.Lumbar vertebrae are larger because they carry the load from ...

Researchers have found that new myelin-making cells are constantly being made in the brain and spinal cord, even in the ...