News tagged with spinal curvature


Elderly women with 'dowager's hump' may be at higher risk of earlier death

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hyperkyphosis, or "dowager's hump" -- the exaggerated forward curvature of the upper spine seen commonly in elderly women -- may predict earlier death in women whether or not they have vertebral osteoporosis, ...





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Where Surgery Was the Standard, Casting May Be the Future

Where Surgery Was the Standard, Casting May Be the Future (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) may lead doctors to choose to tweak an old technology ? casting ? over using high-tech implantable devices for children ...


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Scientists make paralyzed rats walk again after spinal-cord injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 3

UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run again while supporting their full weight on a treadmill.


Researchers find ways to encourage spinal cord regeneration after injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Animal research is suggesting new ways to aid recovery after spinal cord injury. New studies demonstrate that diet affects recovery rate and show how to make stem cell therapies safer for spinal injury patients. The findings ...


Infiltrating blood-derived macrophages play a role in recovery from spinal cord injury in mice

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created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although macrophages are known as essential players in wound healing, their contribution to recovery from spinal cord injury is a subject of debate.


Immune response to spinal cord injury may worsen damage

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created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. What, if anything, those antibodies do there is unknown.


'Volume dial' neurone may aid spinal disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scottish researchers have discovered a new class of neuron that may lead to new therapies for spinal injury.


Combined minimally invasive procedures offer new option for lumbar degenerative scoliosis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Surgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Institute for Spinal Disorders have combined three innovative minimally invasive spine surgery procedures to treat spinal curvature in adults, a common consequence of aging. An article ...


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Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 25, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Physicians have recognized scoliosis, the abnormal curvature of the spine, since the time of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery -- until now. For the first time, researchers have discovered ...


Zebrafish offer clues to treatments for motor neurone disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny zebrafish could hold the key to stem cell treatments for motor neurone disease.


Stem cells restore mobility in neck-injured rats (w/ Video)

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first human embryonic stem cell treatment approved by the FDA for human testing has been shown to restore limb function in rats with neck spinal cord injuries - a finding that could expand the clinical ...



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