Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes paralysis in roughly one million people worldwide, with incident cases rising yearly. Beyond motor and sensory deficits, patients frequently experience muscle atrophy, ...

What if chronic diseases, which are difficult to treat with medicine alone, could be managed with electricity? As ...

In past research, Calvert and others in the field have been able to restore control over muscle movement for these patients ...

Spinal cord stimulators are electrical devices that are surgically implanted in the body to treat long-term pain. They have a battery pack and leads that deliver electrical impulses directly to the ...

Munson Healthcare and Mary Free Bed have partnered to provide advanced spinal surgical care and specialized post-surgical rehabilitation for patients across northern Michigan. The partnership aims to ...

The effects of spinal cord injuries are complex and multifaceted. People lose not only the ability to control the movement of their limbs, but also the ability to receive sensory feedback from them.

Schematic illustration of the noninvasive closed-loop spinal interface. Hand muscle activity is recorded by surface electrodes and converted into trigger pulses for magnetic stimulation applied over ...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its spinal cord stimulation (SCS) devices for the treatment of ...