Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A new spinal cord implant may help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) ...

How a tiny spinal implant could help those with muscle-wasting disease - Three people with a muscle-destroying disease got ...

For many people, Superman actor Christopher Reeve was the first introduction to spinal cord injury. The attention to research ...

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

Brandon Simmons was nervous about his first time going out in public since a car accident left him with a C3 spinal cord ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

In a new study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated ...

Support is growing for a rural Minnesota hockey teenager who broke his neck in a freak incident during a game in Canada last month. Jackson Drum, 17, was playing for Idaho's Coeur D'Alene Hockey ...

Veterans’ groups and advocates for those with disabilities have issued scathing criticisms of the president’s baseless ...