In a move to provide advanced solutions for chronic pain sufferers, OrthoNebraska is now offering minimally invasive spinal cord stimulation. This treatment delivers electrical impulses to the ...

Abbott’s spinal cord stimulation devices earned FDA approval to address chronic back pain for patients who aren’t eligible for spine surgery. August: Medtronic received CE Mark approval for its latest ...

Spinal stenosis surgery helps to reopen your spinal canal, the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC ... Treatment includes administration of corticosteroids, radiation therapy, surgery, and chemotherapy. Nurses should watch for early symptoms (particularly pain ...

Multiple sclerosis causes lesions to the spinal cord and other parts of the central nervous system. An MRI can detect spinal cord lesions and help diagnose and monitor the condition. Multiple ...

Vocal cord surgery is usually done to treat damage to the vocal cords, remove cancerous lesions from the throat, or treat glottic insufficiency — a condition that happens when your vocal cords ...

This keeps the ligament from affecting the nerve root and frees up space in the spinal canal. You don’t have to be asleep for PILD, so it may be an option for people who can’t have surgery ...

According to mayoclinic.org, a laminectomy is surgery “to remove the back arch or part of a spinal bone.” The procedure is done to “ease pressure on the spinal cord or nerves.” Mir was ...

The studies aim to evaluate the ARC-IM spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system’s potential to help people with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers Dr. Jocelyne Bloch and Grégoire Courtine of ...