A new review reaffirms that spinal steroid injections only reduce neck and back pain for a few months, but they don't improve ...

Conditions that doctors may initially misdiagnose as carpal tunnel syndrome include arthritis, tendinitis, and other nerve compression issues. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a nerve disorder that may ...

Depending on the procedure that is done, surgery may help decompress the spinal cord and relieve pressure on nerve roots caused by inflammation. It is also used to stabilize the spine (spinal fusion) ...

The cervical disks lie between these bones ... This is the passageway between vertebrae that allows nerve roots to travel through the spinal cord. One 2021 study involving 200 male and 160 ...

It happens when your cervical spinal cord or nerve roots arising from it become compressed by the cervical vertebrae. Your cervical spine, or neck, is formed by seven small vertebrae that begin at ...

One year postoperatively, the dog’s gait remains normal. Malignant nerve sheath neoplasms commonly arise in the brachial plexus or cervical spinal nerves, often affecting the innervation provided by ...

Medically reviewed by Eva Umoh Asomugha, M.D. Myelopathy refers to a cluster of symptoms that result from spinal cord ...

2002) (motoneurons and nerve-roots) that restricts the application of FES ... It is important to bear in mind that although FES therapy has not been extensively tested in individuals with cervical ...

Screening for cervical cancer represents one of the greatest successes achieved in disease prevention. Cytology has been central to cervical cancer screening programs for over 50 years and has ...

the tough covering around the spinal cord and that which surrounds the lumbar nerve roots or cervical nerve roots. The epidural space is a cavity which can hold the steroid injection allowing it ...

The somatosensory input that gives rise to the perceptions of pain, itch, cold and heat are initially integrated in the superficial dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Here, we describe a new approach to ...

Transient ischemic attack was diagnosed in an 80-year-old man after he experienced a sudden onset of weakness in his left hand in December 1999. Although he was asymptomatic on admission, MRI ...