Abstract: Spinal cord injuries (SCI) substantially affect sensory, motor, and autonomous functions below the level of injury, reducing the independence and quality of life for affected individuals.
The thoracic spine is part of your spinal column and is composed of 12 bones that are stacked one upon another. The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as ...
Objectives Degenerative cervical myelopathy ... ratings of spinal cord compression, and measures of tissue injury: cross-sectional area, diffusion fractional anisotropy, magnetisation transfer ratio ...
While the body has 31 spinal nerves, you only have 30 dermatomes. That’s because C1 (in your neck) doesn’t provide sensory function ... A pinched nerve, also called radiculopathy, results from ...
Anatomy. Understanding the healthy and pathological anatomy of the cervical spine is vital in optimising the design of cervical cage implants. The first published anatomical studies of the ...
DALLAS, Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, an important study exposed a shocking reality: one unnecessary spine surgery is performed every eight minutes in the United States on a Medicare ...
BOSTON — Straddling the scaffolding high up in a historic Boston church, murals conservator Gianfranco Pocobene is working to uncover eight angels that were hidden under layers of paint for more ...