Electromyographic study in complete and incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Tendon taps were delivered manually with an instrumented hammer to the tendons of the tibialis anterior and soleus muscle ...

The effect of abdominal neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in patients with spinal cord injury. The principal parameters observed in this study are lung capacity, colonic transit, patient ...

Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves in the spinal cord appeared to help three people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away. The ...

Nelson broke down in tears as she explained eight-month-old Ocean and Story have severe SMA and may never walk ...

At its core, SMA is caused by a deficiency in a protein called Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) . This protein is essential for ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation. Spinal stimulation restored muscles wasted by rare genetic ...

Astronauts who spend several months on the International Space Station have significant reductions in the size and density of paraspinal muscles of the trunk after returning to Earth, reports a study ...

Living in space can take its toll on an astronaut’s back, causing the muscles within the spine to weaken over time, a new study confirms. In microgravity, these muscles are prone to atrophy, and that ...