Prof James said end-stage prostate cancer attacks the bones and could lead to spinal cord compression and paralysis.
They used a surgical technique to damage the spinal cord of rats and induce neuropathic pain.
Or, you might find a support group of people with spinal cord injuries helpful.
Her spinal cord was crushed, leaving her unable to move from the neck down.
Reeve died in 2004, and there is still no cure for spinal cord injuries.
Even low fractures could mean life in a wheelchair if the spinal cord is damaged.
The first in utero spinal cord repair surgery was done at Vanderbilt University in 1997.
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Most patients in the spinal cord center have survived an accident that, statistically, should have killed them.
The researchers say the transplanted cells regenerated nerve fibres across the damaged region of the spinal cord.
Any treatment would provide some long-awaited good news to the 250, 000 Americans living with spinal cord injuries.
He was shot in the head, suffered brain and spinal cord injuries and was confined to a wheelchair.
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Meninges are the thin layers of tissue that protect the brain and the spinal cord under the skull.
Other studies have suggested that cannabinoids can ease chronic pain associated with conditions cancer and spinal cord injury.
This meant that nervous connections were made to both sides of the spinal cord, rather than just to one.
The soft palate is controlled by cranial nerves in other words, nerves that do not pass through the spinal cord.
In the thousands of years since, medical science has had little more to offer patients with spinal cord injuries.
The key is to feed the spinal cord an appropriate sensory input, so that it has something to learn.
Keirstead is working with human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury.
Ephrins are believed to control the growth of nerve cells necessary to help form proper circuits within the spinal cord.
The new nerve connections did not occur over the long distances required to connect the brain to the spinal cord.
Donoghue showed a video of a young man whose spinal cord was severed when he was stabbed in the neck.
And, because of my spinal cord injury from the back breakage, I can't feel my left foot so good either.
He then took brain stem cells from another rat and grew part of the spinal cord on a polymer scaffold.
The trials were halted on Jan. 17 after four patients showed signs of inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
It is the first FDA-approved clinical trial to inject fetal stem cells directly into the spinal cord of an adult.
Actor Christopher Reeve put the spotlight on spinal cord injuries after he was paralyzed in 1995 in a riding accident.
They have pinpointed, one by one, a brew of proteins in the spinal cord that block this incipient nerve growth.
One not-yet-published study of 146 recently injured spinal cord patients compared two types of training aimed at restoring walking ability.
After a period of remission, the cancer returned in 2013, attaching to his spinal cord and confining the defensive linebacker to a wheelchair.
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It is an attempt to show the cells and the growth factors they release can help patients with spinal cord injury.
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