A low-tech electrode array can effectively stimulate muscles in the legs of people with spinal cord injuries, a proof-of-concept study shows.
Silicon nanochip technology, shown to be successful in changing skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells, may also treat traumatic muscle loss.
New research in mice clarifies why regeneration can stall after traumatic muscle loss, in which significant chunks of muscle are destroyed.
Back pain affects more than 50% of people who go to space, research indicates. The condition is now dubbed "space adaptation back pain."
A new set of guidelines could empower health care providers to talk to patients about firearm injuries, a leading cause of death for adults and children in the US.
Tunable electrospun scaffolds, made from decellularized skeletal muscle, may promote the regeneration of injured skeletal muscle.
Using a patient's own stem cells may offer a way to repair spinal cord injuries. In a new study, researchers saw improved walking and motor function.
The addition of a growth hormone allows certain equine stem cells to better treat injuries in horses, report researchers.
More than 2.5 million glass table injuries are reported each year. New research gauges the scope of the problem and indicates a solution.
The formation and collapse of microbubbles in spinal fluid may be to blame for some of the damage of traumatic brain injuries, researchers report.
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