In adults, the spinal cord will stretch during the course of normal activity which like bending and stretching. If a symptomatic tethered cord (tethered cord syndrome) is left untreated, it can ...

In some cases, people with tethered cord syndrome show no visible sign of the condition until they become adults. Most incidents of tethered cord syndrome are developmental — that is, they ...

Note that the spinal cord ends at the L4-L5 level. This is a tethered cord. The spinal cord in adults normally terminates at the caudal level of the L1 vertebral body. A tethered spinal cord occurs ...

Intradural dermoid could produce adult onset tethered cord syndrome, but it was not reported in the English literatures to our knowledge. A case report and a review of literature.

Tethered cord is a debilitating disorder that is poorly understood and hard to diagnose.I was missing a lot of school,” said 13-year-old Lucky Eschauzier of Braintree, Massachusetts.After a long ...

ChatGPT diagnosed a child's tethered cord syndrome, which caused him years of pain and was missed by 17 doctors. But AI chatbots are still error-prone.

For children and young adults with tethered cord syndrome, investigators of this study found spinal column shortening was a safe and efficient alternative treatment to untethering the spinal cord.

The good news is that tethered cord is a very treatable condition, especially when diagnosed and treated early in the child's life. With treatment, individuals with tethered spinal cord syndrome ...