Neurites include axons, which are often severed during spinal cord injuries. When axons are cut, communication between ...

Spinal cord injury remains one of the most challenging neurological conditions to treat, largely because damage continues to worsen long after the initial trauma. Secondary injury processes—driven by ...

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai launched a joint replacement recovery program that leverages spinal and regional anesthesia to help patients walk sooner and return home faster after surgery.  The ...

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have uncovered a surprising repair system in the spinal cord that could open new doors for treating paralysis, stroke, and diseases like multiple sclerosis. They found that ...

POMONA, Calif. (KABC) -- Local paralysis recovery center, The Perfect Step, is celebrating a milestone at its new facility in Pomona. Here, specialists help empower clients through innovative recovery ...

A Minnesota teen who was left paralyzed and unable to breathe on his own after a devastating ice hockey accident has made a miraculous recovery, Jackson Drum, 18, damaged his C1 and C2 vertebrae at ...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental blood test might be able to help doctors predict whether someone will recover their mobility following a spinal cord injury. The test looks ...

A computational model mechanistically links spinal circuit reorganization to recovered locomotion after incomplete spinal cord injury.

For decades, most scientists treated the spinal cord as little more than a biological cable. The brain gave orders, the ...