Over time, the spinal cord is damaged by the elevated pressure. Spinal dural fistulas form spontaneously during adulthood and are not congenital or hereditary. These lesions do not rupture or bleed.

Spinal cord injury often results in permanent paralysis as a consequence of the inability of axons to regenerate across the lesion. Although the adult spinal cord is currently known to be capable ...

THE purpose of this paper is to report on the clinical significance of a little known, but constantly occurring, phenomenon in high spinal-cord lesions. Mass sympathetic discharge, occurring ...

MS experts are recommending updates to the 2017 McDonald diagnostic criteria that aim to make diagnosis easier, faster and more accurate.

Published in BMJ Open Sport and Exercise, the study looked at athletes with spinal cord injuries to better understand ...

The UAB-SCIMS offers a series of Fact Sheets on selected topics related to SCI. Some Fact Sheets are products of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS).

High-dose cholecalciferol (vitamin D) is safe and can nearly double the time it takes for clinically isolated syndrome to ...

You've got a lot of them, everything from disease-modifying therapies and drugs that help manage symptoms to rehabilitation ...

who is also Deputy Director of AMBER sees the implant as a new approach “Bridging the lesion with an electroconductive biomaterial designed to mimic the structure of the spinal cord, combined ...

This abnormal reflex is typically a sign of an upper motor neuron lesion. These neurons originate in the brain's cerebral ...