Spinal cord stimulation might be a valuable alternative to electrical deep-brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with Parkinson disease (PD), suggests a study by researchers at Duke University ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

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 ...

The pilot trial in three adults with SMA showed that epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS), which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally ...

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 ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation. Spinal stimulation restored muscles wasted by rare ...

New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for these patients, even restoring the capability to walk. In studies at the University of Pittsburgh ...