New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle ...

Neuroscientist Susan Harkema, who led pioneering studies of stimulation for spinal cord injuries while at the University of Louisville, cautioned the new study is small and short but called it an ...

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally silent motor neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle strength and ...

In a small human trial in SMA patients neurostimulation sessions improved motoneuron function, reduced fatigue, and improved leg muscle strength and walking.

usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for these patients, even restoring the ...

Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves in the spinal cord appeared to help three people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away.

First-in-human study of epidural spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy. Nature Medicine , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03484-8 Cite This Page : ...