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The spinal cord is a vital structure because all the movement-related messages your brain sends to your body, as well as all the sensory messages your body generates below your neck, travel through the cervical spinal cord. Cervical spinal stenosis often triggers pain; weakness; numbness; or clumsiness in a hand, foot, arm or leg.
Cervical stenosis is the narrowing of the spine in your neck. Lumbar stenosis is when narrowing of the spine occurs in the lower back, which is the most common type of spinal stenosis. Symptoms usually begin as a tingling in your hand, arm, foot or leg, and progress to loss of sensation and function.
Spinal stenosis occurs when the open space within your spine narrows, causing pressure and irritation to the nerve tissue. It can happen for a variety of reasons, but most of the time spinal stenosis is a result of aging and the buildup of arthritis. In some cases, spinal stenosis does not cause any symptoms and may be found during a medical ...
In the past, the most common types of surgery on the cervical disks were spinal fusion and decompression surgery. During a spinal fusion, a spacer graft material is placed between two or more cervical vertebrae. Eventually, the vertebrae grow together, or fuse, over time. Spinal fusion and decompression surgeries often are performed together.
Relieving pressure on the spinal cord or nerves can ease symptoms. Stabilization surgery, such as a spinal fusion, which improves stability by permanently connecting two or more vertebrae in the spine. It may be performed after a decompression surgery for certain surgical indications of the spine.
Mayo Clinic is looking to regenerative medicine as a potential long-term solution for degenerative disk disease that has for years eluded medical science. Millions of people in the U.S. are afflicted with chronic neck and back pain that often comes after years of wear and tear on the spine. Current treatments provide only temporary relief […]
Dr. Lu's team is studying how large molecules band together to help bones and connective tissue, such as spinal disks, regenerate. Their preclinical research is probing whether mesenchymal stem cells encapsulated in a biotherapeutic hydrogel could deliver healing messages to torn or ruptured spinal disks.
Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spaces within the spine, which can put pressure on the nerves that travel through the spine. Normal pressure hydrocephalus happens when the fluid-filled chambers in the brain, called ventricles, become enlarged, due to an accumulation of extra cerebrospinal fluid, and press on the brain, even though the ...
Stem cells are used mainly in research in the U.S., and fat-derived stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury is considered experimental by the Food and Drug Administration. Between 250,000 and 500,000 people worldwide suffer a spinal cord injury each year, according to the World Health Organization.
Spinal cord injury is a life-changing medical event that affects almost 18,000 people in the U.S. each year. Medical advances are improving prognosis for these patients, pushing care forward one experiment at a time. Now two papers from Mayo are adding to the effort. Published in February, one paper in Spinal Cord Series and Cases, examines the use of statins […]