Also known as radicular back pain, this condition is typically caused by compression, inflammation, or injury to a spinal nerve root. A herniated disc, spinal stenosis, and degenerative disc ...

A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. These nerves send signals for things like ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

In a small human trial in SMA patients neurostimulation sessions improved motoneuron function, reduced fatigue, and improved leg muscle strength and walking.

Figure 3: Spinal nerves are targeted to ... Neuronal chemotaxis: chick dorsal root axons turn towards high concentrations of nerve growth factor. Science 206, 1079–1080 (1979).

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an ...

electrodes that were placed in the lower back region on each side of the spinal cord, directing the stimulation exclusively to sensory nerve roots. Testing sessions lasted four hours each and were ...