Its location is variable. It is a rare cause of spinal cord compression whose origin can be congenital or acquired following trauma, infection or inflammation. MRI remains the key examination, it ...

Spina bifida is a congenital defect in which an infant's spine and spinal cord do not close or develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine. One of every 3,000 newborns is believed to have ...

Complete spinal cord injury—If your injury is complete, you can no longer feel anything or control your body below the injury site. Incomplete spinal cord injury—Patients who have some sensation and ...

Cervical or upper-thoracic spinal cord injury (SCI, ≥T6) often leads to low resting blood pressure (BP) and impaired cardiovascular responses to acute exercise due to disrupted supraspinal sympathetic ...

Spinal cord injury leads to loss of innervation of skeletal muscle, decreased motor function, and significantly reduced load on skeletal muscle, resulting in atrophy. Factors such as braking, hormone ...