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 ...

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

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 ...

After years of caring for others, Auckland nurse Zazi Gohar faced her own health crisis when she was diagnosed with multiple ...

The lesion was a so-called Tarlov cyst ... Typically, the sacs appear among the roots of the nerves that grow out of the spinal cord. Often, these cysts cause no symptoms. However, in this ...

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).

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

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