A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. Applying low ...

Jayden Glentworth has continued to embrace the outdoors after a severe accident, thanks to help from the New Zealand Spinal Trust. Imagine waking up in an ICU bed, with doctors and specialists ...

When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after surgery to fuse them (spinal fusion). Failed spinal fusions are usually due to issues ...

Spinal stenosis exercise programs should be focused on improving spinal flexibility, strengthening the muscles of the trunk and lower extremities, and general overall conditioning to improve spinal ...

ALEXANDRIA — A fundraising rally will be held April 12 for a hockey player who suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury earlier this year. The rally for Jackson Drum will be held at Northstar ...

In September 2023, it emerged publicly that non-EU approved (non-CE marked) metal springs had been surgically implanted into a number of children who underwent spinal surgery at Children's Health ...

Steel springs implanted in children during spinal surgery were made from a metal known to corrode and were not evaluated due to gaps in hospital procedures, health regulator Hiqa has found.

Responsibility for the use of unauthorised springs in children’s spinal surgeries lies with the surgeon involved “in the first instance”, the Taoiseach has insisted. Micheál Martin said it ...

First and foremost at the heart of this controversy over spinal operations are the children and families affected. Three children were failed in the care they received and had unapproved spinal ...

Review does not identify any evidence of written management approval for use of uncertified devices, while a lack of information was given to parents of the experimental nature of procedures A review ...

THE primary purpose of this report is to emphasize the relation of a high-pitched "squeaking" or "musical" systolic murmur to aortic stenosis and calcification of the aortic valve. This is not so ...