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View Post: New device implanted by surgeons help paralyzed patients breathe ...
12 hours ago by BJS  
25, 2009 -- Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center soon will begin implanting a new device designed to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or other diseases that keep them from breathing independently. ...
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View Post: Fishing Tournament for Awareness of Spinal Cord Injuries
18 Nov 2009
All tournament proceeds benefit the Darrell Gwynn Foundation, which provides support for victims of spinal cord injuries and debilitating disease, and the Speediatrics® Unit at Homestead Hospital. In 1990, after a near fatal accident in ...
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View Post: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
24 Nov 2009 by kristenrosenthal  
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, is an inflammatory neurological disease, similar to the autoimmune disease Multiple Sclerosis. But first, what do all those words actually mean? In medical terminology, acute means the ... ADEM is one of many inflammatory conditions that cause degeneration of the myelin that protects the nerves in our brain and spinal cord. Without myelin, nerves cannot transmit signals correctly and results in a loss of function in the ...
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View Post: Neurology Minutiae: Sleep pearls, neuromuscular diseases other ...
5 hours ago by Neurodoc  
Spinal cord injuries. 1. Sleep problems include pain, spasms, trouble breathing. 2. Higher injury leads to OSA, 48 % with increased neck thickness with unopposed parasympathetic stimulation and head position with changes over time. ...
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View Post: The Spinal Question: To Fuse or Not to Fuse
9 hours ago by Back Lady  
During surgery, these patients will have the bone spurs and disc protrusions removed from around the nerve roots and spinal cord, which may destabilize the bones of the spine and cause the bones to slip more. Inserting screws and rods in these ... The more difficult indication for spinal fusion is in the patient with severe pain in the back. Degenerative disc disease is the leading cause of back pain in the United States, but back pain can have many underlying causes. ...
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View Post: Neurologique
9 hours ago by Neurologique  
neuro-lupus, neuromyelitis optica (NMO or Devic's disease). 5. Even if the association with MS holds up, CCSVI and MS may be caused by a third factor. (MS may not be a direct cause of CCSVI). 6. CCSVI may be caused by MS, ... optic nerve vs . brainstem vs. cervical spinal cord vs. thoracic spinal cord? Are we going to see. an association between the type of venous constriction and the type of MS. The 4 patterns. of CCSVI reminds us of the 4 pathological types of MS. ...
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View Post: Featured Article - Factors from common human bacteria may trigger ...
24 Nov 2009
Multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease where the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, affects nearly 1 in 700 people in the United States. Patients with multiple sclerosis have a variety of neurological symptoms, ...
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View Post: Your Baby Bedding » Blog Archive » How Prenatal Nutrients Can Play ...
9 hours ago by Keith Woolley  
It helps the neural tubes which are important to the nervous system form correctly and allows the skin to close over the spinal cord at the right stage of development. If the nervous system does not form properly, the baby can develop a ...
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View Post: Spinal Cord Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment
30 Oct 2009 by HandsomePirate  
Product Description: Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles. Covers all aspects of disorders of the spinal cord and their treatment. Halftone images, photos, and line drawings. For practitioners. DNLM: Spinal Cord Diseases–diagnosis. ...
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View Post: Kelly Sutton : theselfimprovementsite.com
2 hours ago by fireflies  
In multiple sclerosis, damage to the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS), and to the nerve fibers themselves, interferes with the transmission of nerve signals between the brain and spinal cord and other parts of the body. ... Everything she wanted had been taken away by a disease she had no control over – a disease that was instead controlling her body and her life. She just wanted to crawl in a hole and die; convinced her life had come to an end. ...
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