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Surgeons restore some hand function to quadriplegic patient

Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored some hand function in a quadriplegic patient with a spinal cord injury at the C7 vertebra, the lowest bone in the neck. Instead ...

Surgery created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Doctor looks to China for spinal injury 'cure'

One of the world's leading researchers into spinal cord injuries says China could hold the key to a cure that he has been searching for since he met late actor Christopher Reeve in the 1990s.

Medical research created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New understanding of nerve damage caused by spinal cord injury could improve treatment design

More than half of traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCI) in humans are cervical lesions, resulting in chronic loss of limb function. A better understanding of the link between the neurologic damage caused by ...

Neuroscience created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0