Spinal cord stimulators have grown in popularity over the past several years as patients see benefits in the less-invasive procedure. Stimulators help patients to treat chronic pain without invasive ...

Treatment includes administration of corticosteroids, radiation therapy, surgery ... cord compression constitutes a true emergency because the initial injury to the spinal cord will lead to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He spent the next few years researching and developing the procedure. "The way the surgery works is [a spinal cord stimulator] supplies that little bit of an extra boost to the spinal cord to make ...

Background: Conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker implantation after heart surgery occur in about 1.5% of patients. Early pacemaker implantation may reduce morbidity and ...

Experiencing a spinal cord injury is life-changing in nearly every aspect of a person’s well-being: physically, emotionally, and socially. The initial shock of the injury often comes with fear, ...

a neurosurgical spine surgeon and director of minimally invasive scoliosis surgery at Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian. A spinal epidural abscess is an infection that can push on the spinal cord ...