Biomedical experimental data indicate that automobile accidents with no vehicle damage are unlikely to cause injury to the occupants. Soft tissue injuries heal in a few weeks. Chronic pain has ...

Tilting your head back isn't always a dangerous movement, as long as you practice it safely and with awareness.

Imagine standing face to face with a giraffe, your neck craned back as you gaze up at this gentle giant towering over you. At ...

When a piece of hardware – like a screw – needs to be inserted into a patient’s spine, it’s important that it is placed in ...

Poor posture is likely damaging your back, warns Dr. Arthur Jenkins, a spinal surgeon in New York. He explains how it happens ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...

Spinal device company Alphatec has commercially launched its Prone TransPsoas corpectomy system. The launch marks the expansion of Alphatec’s deformity and corpectomy procedure capabilities for ...

The Polytechnic University (PolyU) says it is tapping into the world of precision medicine as it develops long-term treatment plans for people with spinal cord injuries, starting with a newly ...

A once “fit and healthy” 25-year-old woman, whose lower back pain was initially misdiagnosed, died from bone cancer less than a year after a tumour was finally discovered in her pelvis.

The convergent inputs to the central projection of the trigeminovascular system, the trigeminal nucleus caudalis and the C1 and C2 regions of the spinal cord, collectively known as the ...

Emergency MRI showed a large cervical spinal epidural abscess for which he was admitted to the intensive care unit and transferred to a neurosurgical centre. He underwent emergency decompression with ...