The spinal cord is a long, ... These regions are further divided into 31 segments: 8 cervical segments, 12 thoracic segments, 5 lumber segments, 5 sacral segments, and 1 coccygeal segment.

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Bone segments form the column. One bone segment is a vertebra, and multiple bone segments are vertebrae. Ligaments and muscles connect these vertebrae, and a disc separates most of the vertebrae and ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides this website as an auxiliary resource for the primary care of patients with spinal cord injury.The contents of this ...

Credit: Shutterstock and Canva Results of an early trial published this week in the journal Nature Medicine found that people with cervical spinal cord damage showed some improvements both in strength ...

Wearable microscopes advance spinal cord imaging in mice Date: March 21, 2023 Source: Salk Institute Summary: Scientists have created wearable microscopes to enable unprecedented insight into the ...

There are estimated to be 1,275,000 persons with paralysis from spinal cord injury in the United States. 1 These patients indicate in surveys that walking and standing are highly desirable goals ...