Todd Lanman, MD, and Jared Ament, MD, performed the first known case combining the Motus total joint replacement implant and the Tops system at adjacent levels. The landmark case was performed on a ...

As the authors reported in Radiology Case Reports, the patient had no history of cancer and had no pain, weakness, numbness, or other spine-related symptoms. Lab tests confirmed she had severe anemia; ...

In a new clinical study, researchers from the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) at The University of Texas at Dallas ...

We’re always looking down and over at our devices, after all. Just lay on it for 10 minutes a day and it’ll help stretch and ...

A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket. This was the first time ...

This type, called postural kyphosis, usually develops over time due to muscle imbalances, particularly in younger people who spend hours: hunched over a desk slouched in a chair, or looking down at a ...

But when that curve becomes exaggerated and fixed (meaning you can ... and in rare cases, spinal injuries or infections, can also play a role. Yes, especially if you’ve noticed a curve ...

Autonomic dysfunction or “dysautonomia,” is a major problem for people living with spinal cord injuries. Credit: Neuroscience News “We discovered that exaggerated, life-threatening autonomic reflexes ...

A primary characteristic of lordosis is an inward curve of the cervical spine or lumbar spine. With hyperlordosis, that curvature is even more exaggerated. Additional characteristics may apply based ...

and an exaggerated startle response. 14-17 Symptoms result from impaired γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)–mediated inhibition of alpha motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain, which leads to ...

becomes excessive or exaggerated. Degeneration of spinal structures is somewhat inevitable as we age. It can occur in any of the structures that make up your back, including the discs, bones, joints, ...