Rats exhibit significant recovery of locomotor function following incomplete spinal cord injuries, albeit with altered gait expression and reduced speed and stepping frequency. These changes likely ...

Unlike humans, rats have a greater capacity for spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injury, which allowed researchers to compare natural healing with healing supported by electrical stimulation.

Spinal cord injuries are described at various levels of "incomplete", which can vary from having no effect on the patient to a "complete" injury which means a total loss of function.

Article Published: June 2000 Motor coordination without action potentials in the mammalian spinal cord Matthew C. Tresch & Ole Kiehn Nature Neuroscience 3, 593–599 (2000) Cite this article ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate ...

Spinal cord lesions are more commonly seen in progressive forms of multiple sclerosis, and they can result in an increased risk of disability. In relapsing-remitting MS, which 80 to 85 percent of ...

Transformative gains About 250,000 to 400,000 Americans live with a spinal cord injury, and roughly 18,000 more will develop one, usually from traumatic events such as car crashes, each year ...

Epidural spinal cord stimulation (ESCS) is a potential treatment for the recovery of the motor function in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. Since the mechanism of ESCS remains unclear, it is ...

Electrode stimulation for spinal cord injury patients is a growing and promising research area. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The spinal motor neurons that control limb movement are located in the lateral motor column (LMC) (Jessell, 2000). Within the LMC, motor neurons are segregated into medial and lateral compartments and ...