Van der Bellen's office said on Saturday he would undergo a routine spinal-disc surgery as a problem in that area he had been suffering from since the start of the year had worsened recently.

Introduction: The cartilage endplate (CEP) plays a crucial role as both a mechanical barrier and nutrient channel for the intervertebral disc, but it is vulnerable to excessive axial loading. We ...

Bourguignon, Lukas et al. systematically review the effect of drugs commonly administered after traumatic spinal cord injury on the neurological recovery in both animal studies and humans.

Backache is a common complaint after both spinal and general anesthesia. When followed by sciatic pain, backache becomes a potential neurologic problem since there may be protrusion of an ...

Co-occurring conditions like osteoarthritis can exacerbate the condition. Injury can impact spinal integrity. While the associated leg pain may only be temporary, it can sometimes persist and may even ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

1 Graduate School of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China 2 Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China The ...

Even among young players, those sudden movements can cause back pain — the most common golf injury — or elbow pain and shoulder pain. Considering that the average age for a U.S. golfer is 44 ...

A Walkerdene man could barely walk after a slipped disc in his spine led to debilitating pain. David Short was on the waiting list for an operation but while waiting was referred to the Healthwise ...

Realizing a Phase I human clinical trial commencing to test the efficacy and safety of the transplantation of olfactory cell nerve bridges to treat chronic spinal cord injury. Since the passing of ...