Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves ... (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away. The treatment increased leg muscle strength in all three participants and allowed ...

Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves in the spinal cord appeared to help three people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away. The ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation ... The treatment increased leg muscle strength in ...

The pilot trial in three adults with SMA showed that epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS), which ... neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle strength and walking.