Researchers in New Zealand have demonstrated a minimally invasive technology that has effectively aided in restoring movement ...

A team of researchers at Rowan University has developed an injectable biomaterial that could significantly improve recovery ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Auckland in New Zealand have developed a ...

Spinal cord injuries are currently incurable with devastating effects on people's lives, but now a trial at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland offers hope for an effective treatment. Spinal ...

Trying to restore bodily functions after spinal cord injuries 05:36. Anderson Cooper: This week on 60 Minutes, we're doing a story about efforts to help people who are paralyzed with severe spinal ...

FRIDAY, March 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A muscle-stimulating implant combined with a robotic exoskeleton can help restore movement in people paralyzed by a spinal cord injury, a new study says.

Most spinal cord injuries occur in young to middle-aged adults, mostly men. The average age at injury was 29 in the 1970s but rose to 43 in the 2010s. Advertisement ...

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury.

The latest study results have been published online in the renowned "The Lancet Neurology" journal. A multi-centre clinical trial (NISCI trial: Nogo-A Inhibition in acute Spinal Cord Injury Study ...

After recovering from surgery, he went to the lab, where scientists began delivering pulses of electricity to certain nerves in his spinal cord. Sponsor Message At first, he felt nothing.