Spinal cord stimulators are electrical devices that are surgically implanted in the body to treat long-term pain. They have a ...

There's a treatment helping chronic pain patients by disrupting pain signals in the body from getting to the brain.

A research team at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has developed a 3-D printed implant to deliver electrical stimulation to injured areas of the spinal cord, offering a potential new ...

AAV virus-mediated spinal cord-specific knockout or pharmacological inhibition of ErbB4 also blunted the response to thermal pain. Based on these results, we propose that ErbB4 is a functional marker ...

About 18,000 Americans suffer spinal cord injuries every year and about 60% are left with limited or no hand or arm function, said Edelle Field-Fote, another researcher on the project and director ...

Paralyzed man can walk again after scientific breakthrough A 40-year-old man whose legs were paralyzed in a cycling accident 12 years ago can walk again thanks to implants in his brain and spinal ...

Recent evidence points to fibromyalgia as a pain dysregulation disorder, although the causes of altered pain processing in the brain and spinal cord remain elusive. “The reasons for this ...

In a new study, Gauthier was surgically implanted with an experimental spinal cord neuroprosthesis to correct walking disorders in people with Parkinson’s disease.