An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

This time though, something went wrong. He crashed. Glentworth’s spinal cord was almost severed – he had a burst fracture at T12 level and no feeling from the waist down. He was flown to ...

Prehabilitation interventions prior to elective lumbar spine procedure may provide modest reductions in pain, disability, and health care costs, however, due to suboptimal certainty of evidence ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Group Captain Manish Kumar Singh, who survived an IAF fighter jet crash in Jamnagar, has been ruled out of spinal cord injury by doctors at MH, Kirkee. He is being treated for a compound fracture ...

The fracture occurred within 2 weeks and there was no spinal cord or nerve root injury; (3) AO classification of A1 or A3, with clear indications for spinal fixation surgery; (4) Complete and ...

He was taken to hospital and remained there until that evening, having suffered a minor spinal fracture, an injury to a muscle in his thigh and bruising. The court heard the named man was also seen by ...

subjective and objective signs of spinal-cord compression; and pathologic fracture with spinal-cord compression. The symptoms produced by the compression of the spinal cord are those common to ...

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.

When I meet Dr Chege Mwangi, 43, an orthopaedic and spine surgeon at the Kenai Orthopaedic and Spine Centre, I’m greeted not by high-tech medical gadgets or an extravagant office, but by his ...