Doctors told him he had spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal.
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"A complete spinal cord injury is when you sever your spinal cord completely," the athlete explains.
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The technique Plaat uses is a combined spinal epidural: The mother gets a spinal block -- a single injection of anesthesia into the spinal fluid -- and an epidural, in which anesthesia is administered, either continuously or periodically, into the spinal cord to provide numbness in the abdominal region.
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In microgravity, the torso lengthens, most likely due to spinal unloading, in which the spinal curvature flattens.
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The Japan Spinal Cord Foundation estimates more than 100,000 people have spinal cord injuries in the country.
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"They did a spinal tap, a spinal MRI and a brain MRI – all in 24 hours," says Jill.
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Fatialofa had surgery for a spinal contusion, which causes compression on the spinal cord and can lead to paralysis.
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One patient spent 58 days in the hospital with a bloodstream infection, a spinal abscess and other spinal problems.
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Epidural needles are not inserted into the fluid surrounding the spinal cord, while spinal needs are inserted into that space.
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NuVasive is a medical device firm that focuses on minimally invasive spinal surgery that treats patients with debilitating spinal conditions.
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Last year, Wright learned he had spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal cord that causes pressure on the nerves.
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He has spinal stenosis, a chronic narrowing of the spinal canal that is at the center of his physical breakdown.
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Viral presence in spinal fluid would indicate a stronger link to the illness, which affects the spinal cord's gray matter.
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"They also performed a Spinal Tap (draining spinal fluid) as I had all the symptoms of life-threatening issues," she wrote.
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"Luci" was born with a tethered spinal cord, which is when the spinal cord is attached to tissue around the spine.
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Wickens, a 29-year-old Canadian, had the surgery to stabilize a thoracic spinal fracture associated with a spinal cord injury.
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He added that disk herniation and spinal stenosis were on a continuum of spinal arthritis and were related to each other.
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While doctors have found D68 in the spinal fluid of some AFM patients, the vast majority of cases don't have any signs of D68 spinal infection, and D68 isn't the only virus that's been found in patients' spinal fluid.
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And then they twist [your back] on a diagonal so that you&aposre spinal fluid goes down into your spinal cord, lower.
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The opening leaks spinal fluid, and the base of the brain can sink into the spinal column and be harmed by pressure.
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We think finding antibodies against enterovirus in the spinal fluid of AFM patients means the virus really does go to the spinal cord.
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Their spinal bone density tended to be lower than among the control group or the long-term runners (whose spinal densities were comparable).
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Remember, Shazier required MAJOR spinal stabilization surgery back in December after suffering a severe spinal injury while playing the Bengals during Monday Night Football.
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To look at an X-ray, Dominique has one brain connected to one spinal cord that diverges into two, each going into a spinal column.
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Since she has syringomyelia, a rare condition that can build up spinal fluid in the spinal cord, doctors took a procedural X-ray of her spine.
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And doctors have long given Depo-Medrol shots, or the generic equivalent, close to the spinal cord for painful backs, necks and conditions like spinal stenosis.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers star required MAJOR spinal stabilization surgery last December after suffering a severe spinal injury while playing the Bengals during a Monday Night Football matchup.
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A year ago, Wright was found to have spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the canal in the spinal cord that can lead to chronic stiffness and pain.
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As for the boy's occasional movements, that's a spinal reflex -- "a reflexive action mediated by cells in the spinal cord, bypassing the brain altogether," according to the doctor.
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The Travis Roy Foundation has since has funded over $2 million in spinal cord research, and has provided over $3.5 million in equipment for those with spinal injuries.
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The children often have a sudden onset of weakness in their limbs, and tests including a spinal fluid tap and a MRI show damage to their spinal cord.
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The children often report a sudden onset of weakness in their limbs, and tests including a spinal fluid tap and a MRI show damage to their spinal cord.
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Iwata, 73, had surgery on March 17 to relieve spinal stenosis, the BOJ said, which is a condition where a narrowing in the spinal column causes nerve pain.
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After ruling out a tick bite or lyme disease, he was diagnosed with a spinal cord infarction, which is an interruption to the blood supply in the spinal cord.
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It's now being tested out with spinal cord injuries to reduce swelling in the wake of an injury, which in turn could keep cells in the spinal cord alive.
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As things stand right now, doctors usually diagnose CJD in a living person by testing their spinal fluid, which can only be obtained though an intensive, sometimes painful spinal tap.
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Background: Severe spinal cord injuries can disconnect the regions of the brain that guide movement from the spinal cord, specifically from below the area that was injured, thereby causing paralysis.
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There is no national registry of spinal cord injuries, but the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center estimates that between 243,000 and 347,000 people in the U.S. have suffered one.
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Patients with spinal injuries: In a clinical trial of six patients with recent spinal injuries, all regained some motor function after receiving oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, a type of stem cell.
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Brain scans and spinal taps may also be conducted to check for corroborating evidence like the accumulation of amyloid, the hallmark protein of Alzheimer's, in the brain or spinal fluid.
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A spinal tap revealed high levels of protein in the cerebral spinal fluid, suggesting that the patient might have some type of autoimmune neuropathy, nerve damage caused by rogue antibodies.
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At the time, hospitals in East Germany didn't have CT scanners, so the alternative was to push a hollow needle into her spinal cord in order to collect spinal fluid.
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Jerika Bolen, 14, has spinal muscular atrophy type 2, a disease that "destroys nerve cells in the brain stem and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle activity," according to Post-Crescent.
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Most of the injuries occur if the needle misses its target and directly injures nerves or places the drug into the spinal fluid or arteries, depriving the spinal cord of blood.
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A bunch of giraffes — their spinal cords as well.
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Suffering from tethered spinal cord syndrome, Kelsey was in and out of the hospital for the first four years of her life, enduring multiple surgeries to remove tumors on her spinal cord.
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Rather than implanting the devices in the spinal column, the implant was located beneath the skin, on the surface of the spinal cord but not inside its fluid which is less risky.
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Roche Holding AG: * FDA GRANTS PRIORITY REVIEW TO ROCHE'S RISDIPLAM FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY * FDA GRANTS PRIORITY REVIEW TO ROCHE'S RISDIPLAM FOR SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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On the interior, occupants are cradled by Infiniti's "spinal support" seats that not only sound like a Spinal Tap cover band but also cushion your vertebrae from the harshness of driving sportily.
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Monkeys with spinal cord damage that paralyzed one leg quickly regained the ability to walk with a wireless connection from the brain to the spinal cord below the injury, scientists reported Wednesday.
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"Every spinal cord injury is like a snowflake," says Meg.
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But Mackay sustained a spinal cord injury in the accident.
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Among Cyfuse's goals: to treat spinal injuries and heart failure.
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But this dude made a spinal implant that's really simple.
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I had a spinal tap to rule out Lyme disease.
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Despite that, Mike had suffered a cerebral spinal fluid leak.
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Doctors originally thought Miller was suffering from a spinal infection.
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If it didn't, this was strong evidence of spinal injury.
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That interface is your spinal cord, your motor nervous system.
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Like her brother, Connie was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
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He recently had a spinal fusion in his cervical spine.
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He died a week later from fatal spinal cord injuries.
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Tests like MRIs or spinal taps wouldn't show any abnormalities.
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Cerrito's lawyer tells us he also suffered a spinal injury.
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She had to have surgery to correct a spinal fracture.
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He is healthy again now after a 2017 spinal fusion.
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But as it turned out, a spinal tap wasn't needed.
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Now spinal nerve pain was ramping up, pulsing and insidious.
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Doctors discovered cancer cells in Jason's spinal fluid in September.
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He is an expert on treating spinal and skeletal pain.
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He retired in 2013 after suffering a spinal cord injury.
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Dr. Yee believes spinal injections are valuable if administered properly.
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His back was bowed and lopsided from his spinal conditions.
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She has had spinal reconstructive surgery and a hip replacement.
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The bullet shattered Ventura's spine and severed his spinal cord.
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Medical staff was concerned about possible spinal and neck injuries.
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Vivendi has controlled "Spinal Tap" rights for nearly three decades.
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K2M will exhibit (Booth #18) its extensive portfolio of spinal technologies, and will also host four educational workshops featuring leading experts in the field who will address cutting-edge techniques for complex spinal pathologies.
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The researchers also found that stem cell therapies for brain and spinal cord injury generated 188 and 93 campaigns, respectively, raising more than $1 million for brain injuries and $590,446 for spinal cord injuries.
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Allan testified about a picture showing the injuries to Gray's spinal cord, pointed out where the spinal cord was pinched and reiterated that the cause of death was a neck injury consistent with a homicide.
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The two ends of the spinal cord would then be fused together with a chemical called polyethylene glycol, or PEG, which has been shown to promote regrowth of cells that make up the spinal cord.
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This has reportedly been associated with deformation in the spinal cord.
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He underwent spinal fusion surgery to save his career in 2017.
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All proceeds go toward finding a cure for spinal cord injuries.
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He died a week later from a critical spinal cord injury.
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I have a spinal cord injury from one of my operations.
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At some point, Gray somehow suffered a fatal spinal cord injury.
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But injecting stem cells in the spinal cord is extremely dangerous.
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He died a week later from a functionally severed spinal cord.
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He died a week later of a functionally severed spinal cord.
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Instead, spinal fusion rates increased — the clinical trials had little effect.
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Spinraza treats the rare, often fatal disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
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This is not Spinal Tap, but that's O.K. Times have changed.
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A blood test or spinal fluid sample can diagnose the infection.
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By then, Pat's untreated cancer had metastasized to his spinal canal.
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Spinal cord stimulation sounds a lot scarier than it really is.
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There are rules with spinal cord injuries that you cannot break.
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None of the trials uncovered serious side effects of spinal manipulation.
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An experimental, pacemaker-like device offers hope for treating spinal injuries.
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About 1 in 11,000 babies are born with spinal muscular atrophy.
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He had skin cancer and the spinal conditions scoliosis and kyphosis.
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The staffer claimed he suffered major injuries and needed spinal surgery.
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She chewed into one man's back, leaving his spinal column exposed.
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But one I never considered was a referral for spinal manipulation.
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It found that spinal manipulation was no better than sham interventions.
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She went to another specialist to have a spinal-cord implant.
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Spinal muscular atrophy is a condition often fatal by age 2.
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His professional career was cut short by a spinal-cord injury.
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They can be found anywhere in the brain or spinal cord.
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Yennefer is a Source who was born with a spinal deformity.
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People with a damaged spinal cord can get better without interventions.
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The spinal cord and reflex system are running much of it.
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Fewer than five per cent of spinal-cord injuries resemble Fidyka's.
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Spinal muscular atrophy is a condition often fatal by age 2.
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Sometime around 1996, he barely survived a bout of spinal meningitis.
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"Patients with spinal pain who visit a chiropractor may receive treatments such as spinal manipulation, massage, acupuncture, exercises and education as appropriate," said lead author Kelsey Corcoran of Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
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In bypassing the injury and restoring communication between the brain and the relevant part of the spinal cord, the scientists successful treated two rhesus monkeys each with one leg paralyzed by a partial spinal cord lesion.
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Each jar contains a late-term fetus, and all of the fetuses have the same disability: Their spinal column failed to fuse all the way around their spinal cord, leaving holes (called lesions) in their spine.
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Although the monkey's spinal cord was not re-fused, the team says it may be possible if the spinal cord is cut cleanly in a bath of polyethylene glycol (PEG), a chemical that preserves nerve cell membranes.
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Since then, he has had three surgical procedures — for his neck, back and shoulder — and he remains affected by spinal stenosis, a chronic narrowing of the spinal canal that is at the center of his physical breakdown.
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Our founders are using VR for precision spinal surgery and emotional recognition.
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She started hearing from spinal cord injury survivors all over the world.
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Same here: this drawing is for studying veins in the spinal cord.
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The videos offered by Israel's mother merely show the single ... spinal reflex.
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These contractions often trigger misalignments of the spinal column and vertebral subluxations.
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Other mothers became so skinny, even their spinal cords began to show.
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Logan now has tumors on his brain and down his spinal cord.
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She's had two spinal fusions and multiple rods bolted to her spine.
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Doctors originally thought the reality star was suffering from a spinal infection.
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For those with spinal cord injuries, life expectancy was still shockingly low.
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Inside, Jessica has been given a spinal tap to numb the pain.
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Incomplete means the spinal cord was not severed, it was only bruised.
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The disease affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
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That's a rare form of the disease that attacks the spinal cord.
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He died a week later after sustaining a fatal spinal cord injury.
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Two patients had serious complications, including spinal cord swelling and severe pain.
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To your brain, stiff hamstrings are better than a herniated spinal disc.
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Glancing into the cavity, I recognize the stump of the spinal cord.
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Wave were inspired by the experience of a near-fatal spinal disorder.
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Zika was found in the infant's brain, spinal cord, and amniotic fluid.
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He had four spinal operations, a heart bypass, and many broken bones.
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It resulted in excruciating pain caused by spinal fluid in the brain.
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When the mice were awake, however, spinal fluid barely flowed at all.
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The total cost of a spinal tap ranges between $3,000 and $5,000.
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One for the ladies Why are you comparing it to Spinal Tap?
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He is currently focused on the problem of reattaching the spinal cord.
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Multiple sclerosis is a disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord.
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The patient had a spinal tap to look for infection or malignancy.
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Her son's spinal was completely severed between the C5 and C6 vertebrae.
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I figured out where Spinal Tap got most of their script material!
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The bottom of the cerebellum extended nine millimeters into the spinal canal.
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He also swims a lot, having quit running because of spinal osteoarthritis.
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It causes dwarfism, clouded vision and spinal cord compression, among other abnormalities.
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Pittsburgh lost Shazier, its leading tackler, to a reported spinal cord injury.
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Correa suffered a spinal injury and fractured his legs in the crash.
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Yet the need for spinal-cord repair in humans was clearly enormous.
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He missed two Met seasons after sustaining a spinal injury that year.
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Dogbert suffers from degenerative myelopathy -- a progressive disease of the spinal cord.
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"As an editor of a scientific journal, I don't want to be sensationalist, but I do want to point out that there may be a new approach to spinal cord paralysis due to spinal cord injuries," he said.
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General anesthesia is hard on those of us with dwarfism as well, because of how our faces are shaped and complexities in our airways, and spinal anesthesia, including epidurals, can also be hard depending on any spinal issues.
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And then the spinal issues would, while also limiting motion, have neurological effects.
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The family expected the grandfather to undergo spinal surgery to remove the fragments.
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Meningitis results in inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
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Naegleria fowleri cultured from the spinal fluid of a patient with an infection.
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Instead, Matt would spend his birthday in a hospital undergoing spinal fusion surgery.
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At some point, somehow, Gray suffered a fatal spinal cord injury and died.
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They took her in for a spinal tap, which confirmed it was polio.
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He died from spinal injuries in a hospital a week after his arrest.
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Financing the first of his ensemble comedies, "This is Spinal Tap", wasn't easy.
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This whole competition I've been suffering through symptoms from my spinal cord injury.
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In addition, they've developed a research biobank for blood and spinal fluid samples.
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There was cervical surgery to reduce inflammation in his neck and spinal cord.
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An enterovirus had attacked Brandon's spinal cord, said Noblitt, resulting in the diagnosis.
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Biogen, which also produces a spinal muscular atrophy treatment, was up about 1%.
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As the Wall Street Journal reports, spinal surgery can cost $20,000 or more.
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Once you get a spinal cord injury, it throws off your whole balance.
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Tatum O'Neal is on the mend after undergoing spinal surgery in Beverly Hills.
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Is it this generation's This Is Spinal Tap, or just an affable comedy?
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He injured his spinal cord in 1996 at Andrews Air Base in Maryland.
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Its symptoms include skin fragility, overly flexible joints and cranial and spinal instability.
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When the spinal cord is severed in an injury, it's generally a catastrophe.
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Do you think they did spinal taps on people who wore their blanket?
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She was later rescued but suffered a spinal cord injury from the fall.
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Later, her sister, a nurse, told her that might have been spinal fluid.
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"There are important spinal structures that run through the neck," Dr. Lee explains.
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One of the main types of neuromodulation is known as spinal-cord stimulation.
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Tables were smashed, spinal columns were shifted, and crowd-pleasing anecdotes were created.
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Spinal cord stimulation is often recommended for people who have had back surgery.
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The FDA approved Medtronic's first fully implantable spinal cord stimulator, Itrel, in 1984.
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EEG machines are nothing new, not even in the spinal cord injury space.
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There may still be some spinal fragments locked in there with the bronze.
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They bind to receptors in the brain and spinal cord, disrupting pain signals.
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"I think spinal manipulation therapy is much the same," Shekelle said by email.
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Know you're interested in something like spinal decompression, which involves stretching the spine?
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Ms. Carvalho began experiencing severe spinal problems in 2009, leading to lengthy hospitalizations.
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These spinal gates can be opened or closed by a variety of factors.
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Researchers have been looking at the evidence supporting spinal manipulation for some time.
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She told me that upper back pain usually comes from spinal-extension problems.
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Because of her spinal surgery, she had to sleep sitting up for months.
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I recently became disabled because of spinal issues, using a cane and walker.
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Specifically, the disease affects the area of the spinal cord called gray matter.
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The condition causes nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to degenerate.
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The accident had caused spinal cord damage, which partly paralyzed my lower body.
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One alternative is a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap, to collect cerebrospinal fluid.
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"I am very encouraged by this first look at efficacy data in complete cervical spinal cord patients," Dr. Shekar Kurpad, a trial researcher and director of the Spinal Cord Injury Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin, said in a statement.
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In the past year alone, he has published papers on rebuilding spinal disks using tissue engineering, on a better way to teach residents how to repair cerebral aneurysms, and on which spinal-surgery techniques have the lowest level of blood loss.
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"Now it has flipped," said Bill Colone, CEO of San Clemente-based Spinal Singularity, which hopes to launch a 'smart' catheter for men with spinal injuries or disease early next year after squeezing in its application under the old European rules.
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So it has to go in through the spinal column, or the brain itself.
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Common opioids:Opioids bind to receptors in the brain and spinal cord, disrupting pain signals.
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All that remains is part of an abnormal bone that stabilizes Dominique's spinal column.
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" And as he lay dying of spinal meningitis in Cairo, he wrote: "No regrets.
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Vaulin suffers from a spinal condition from well before his arrest, his lawyers say.
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And a CNN Hero makes more progress in helping victims of spinal cord injuries.
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He sustained severe spinal injuries and permanently lost all sensation from the waist down.
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Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord has been shown to facilitate voluntary muscle contractions.
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His T10 vertebrae was destroyed, and with it a section of his spinal cord.
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Cerebrospinal fluid surrounds and cushions the brain and spinal cord, filling the open spaces.
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In rare cases, adenovirus can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing neurologic disease.
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Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes (meninges) that cover the brain and spinal cord.
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In the United States, 1.3 million people have paralysis due to spinal cord injuries.
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Like Mzee, Marquis received a spinal cord implant as part of a research study.
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He received emergency spinal fusion surgery in Boston with his family by his side.
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Spinraza, approved in late 22021, requires infusion into the spinal canal every four months.
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While in the custody of police he suffered severe injuries to his spinal cord.
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The disease causes nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to gradually deteriorate.
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And the first year I had about six people, all with spinal cord injuries.
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About 282,000 people are living with spinal cord injuries in the United States (PDF).
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The new brace, developed by Spanish researchers, will help children with spinal muscular atrophy.
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Spinal muscular atrophy is a degenerative illness that affects about one in 10,000 babies.
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Spinraza, approved in late 2016, requires infusion into the spinal canal every four months.
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Now we have 2300+ active clinical trials targeting both spinal cord and brain injuries.
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Gray died of spinal injuries he suffered while under arrest in a police van.
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Not everyone with sleep problems in Bendlin's study had abnormalities in their spinal fluid.
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Testing on spinal fluid from seven of the infants was positive for Zika antibodies.
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In New York, Army tackle Eugene Byrne had died from brain and spinal injuries.
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This grim sexual trajectory is what America expects from people with spinal cord injuries.
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"They had done a spinal tap and originally thought it was meningitis," says Carquillat.
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A version of the same technology can even be used on the spinal cord.
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The organization is dedicated to raising money and researching spinal cord and brain injuries.
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His neck was broken and his spinal cord compressed; he died a week later.
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A CT scan the next day showed a fractured rib but no spinal damage.
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Spinraza, which is injected into the spinal fluid, increases levels of the deficient protein.
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This progressive nervous system disease attacks nerve cells in your brain and spinal cord.
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The pressure from this swelling eventually interrupts the brain's connection to the spinal cord.
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Harris sustained a spinal injury and head lacerations that required stitches from that attack.
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"We use a sensor to measure your spinal position in a car," he explained.
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Jones has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 (SMA), causing him to require wheelchair assistance.
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Heart (top), lung (middle), and spinal cord tissue before and after denaturation and expansion.
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"He has extreme spinal mobility," says Ryan Parker, a Texas-based freelance hitting instructor.
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She suffered three spinal fractures and a concussion and was rushed to the hospital.
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Dr. Brunvand ordered a spinal tap to give him steroids to combat the inflammation.
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More than half his spinal cord was damaged and three neck vertebrae were fractured.
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He suffered 3 spinal fractures, and went into surgery soon afterward for his back.
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Other patients have had to turn to invasive and dangerous treatments, like spinal injections.
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After spinal surgery last February I began using a cane for the first time.
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Make sure you have a pillow handy for the next pose, a spinal twist.
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He developed back problems leading to spinal-fusion surgery before the 21992-21990 season.
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Neural and spinal material likely to contain the prions that transmit Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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"Better Call Saul" now, though there are still a lot of "Spinal Tap" people.
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The drug was delivered through a spinal tap, so it could reach her brain.
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While biking to work, a hit-and-run driver caused a spinal cord injury.
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But that led to foot and shoulder surgeries and even a spinal fusion procedure.
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Geerling sent the patient for another spinal tap to look specifically for this bug.
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This is the last weekend for "Spinal Tap" and four other films on Netflix.
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The result is a spinal column that lacks the lumbar curve of modern humans.
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The discovery of a chronic back condition — spinal stenosis — severely undermined his 2015 season.
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In 2008, he began operations using the cells on patients with spinal-cord damage.
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Consider Dr. Gary Michelson, a spinal surgeon and inventor worth an estimated $1.8 billion.
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In 2014 I learned I had a rare spinal cancer and underwent multiple surgeries.
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"If you just came and saw our band, you'd understand," says the lead singer of Wet Cherry, a name that in 2018 sounds so ridiculous and over the top that they should have opened up for Spinal Tap in This Is Spinal Tap.
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What's more, Komisaruk has discovered that this third nerve, the vagus, carries sensation from the cervix directly to the brain, circumventing the spinal cord, as evidenced by his finding that women whose spinal cord is severed can still orgasm from cervical stimulation.
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Some common examples include cystic fibrosis, spinal muscle atrophy, and Tay-Sachs disease, Sagaser says.
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The drugged, brainless embryos developed severe birth defects, such as crooked tails and spinal cords.
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Sources close to Anthony say that dad George Anthony suffered a "serious" spinal cord injury.
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" After downing the beverage, Reynolds gave a rave review: "I would rather drink spinal fluid.
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More than a dozen other students were injured -- some with severe head or spinal injuries.
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He is now battling back from his fourth operation, a spinal fusion procedure in 2017.
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If the pain began recently, the guidelines recommend superficial heat, massage, acupuncture or spinal manipulation.
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It makes the spine hyperexcited, and sends impulses to the spinal cord and the brain.
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Without treatment, the tumour can slowly compress the brain stem and spinal chord, causing quadriplegia.
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The interim results were presented at the International Spinal Cord Society meeting in Vienna, Austria.
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All that remains is a continuous burning from nerve endings meeting a disconnected spinal cord.
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Some also have kidney problems, hearing loss, or spinal abnormalities, according to Boston Children's Hospital.
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If you've had a headache for days or weeks, they might perform a spinal tap.
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These problems can, in turn, compromise spinal health and contribute to back pain, Hassoon said.
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Gray died from spinal injuries after being shackled without a seat belt in the van.
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AFM affects the spinal cord and causes partial paralysis, similar to polio, especially in children.
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SMA is caused by deficiency of a protein called smn in the spinal motor neurons.
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Spinraza, which is injected into the spinal fluid, increases the levels of the deficient protein.
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The animals can patch an injured heart or spinal cord, and even regrow entire limbs.
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"We've been told his spinal cord looks OK, all things considered," Tom told the outlet.
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In some cases, people with [spinal cord injuries] regain some function years after the injury.
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The Cochrane review on acute pain found that spinal manipulation worked no better than placebo.
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Implanted electrodes would be used to stimulate the spinal cord to strengthen new nerve connections.
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It affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that make muscles work.
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The group's review said that spinal manipulation was backed by "low-quality evidence," as well.
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The surgery went without complication, although the severity of the spinal cord injury remains unknown.
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Glioblastomas are aggressive tumors that form in the tissue of the brain and spinal cord.
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For an hour, they try to wake up her spinal cord and get it moving.
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The impact severely damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the chest down.
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Mascots, a mockumentary from Spinal Tap director Christopher Guest, is up next on Oct. 13.
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Meet Augmedics, an Israeli startup working on augmented reality headsets for surgeons performing spinal surgery.
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Where there were Spinal Tap stories I definitely wanted to tell them—and I did.
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The procedure removes herniated disc material that presses on the nerves or the spinal cord.
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A series of MRIs and x-rays revealed a fracture in his lower spinal column.
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Pieces of the bone had pierced his spinal cord, paralyzing him from the waist down.
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Most patients have one option if they arrive at the hospital with a spinal injury.
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Augmedics is an Israeli startup working on augmented reality headsets for surgeons performing spinal surgery.
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One of the many abandoned dogs that her grandmother took in had a spinal injury.
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It was a huge mass, filling the entire part of the man's lower spinal column.
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Sales of spinal muscular atrophy treatment Spinraza were $364 million, missing estimate of $381.55 million.
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Mr. Etra had spinal stenosis for many years and was mostly bedridden when he died.
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O for about $1.4 billion, adding K2M's fast-growing spinal implant technology to its business.
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Given his chronic back ailment, spinal stenosis, Wright knows that his rehab may take longer.
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Increasingly overweight riders are leaving the animals with spinal injuries and open wounds, reports say.
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It's the latest system from Medtronic, the company that created the spinal cord stimulation market.
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Spinal cord stimulation had historically been delivered at low frequency, usually 40 to 60 hertz.
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Deutsche Bank estimates spinal cord stimulation accounts for about 6 percent of Medtronic's total sales.
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Matt Hardy had his share of injuries, but nothing that would foreshadow the spinal injury.
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Surgeons have been bypassing spinal injuries in other nerve pathways for about a century now.
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That said, "there are other ways" of potentially succesfully reattaching the spinal cord, Hardy said.
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Indeed, since learning of spinal stenosis in May 2015, Wright — whose career numbers include a .
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Stem cell research to treat spinal cord injuries was the big topic 20 years ago.
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One of their children was born with spina bifida, a defect of the spinal chord.
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And a week later, Freddie Gray died of severe injuries, including a severed spinal cord.
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In desperation, Woods had a fourth back surgery — this time, spinal fusion in April 2017.
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Some scientists are trying to find a CTE signature in blood, saliva, or spinal fluid.
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Kevin, the driver and the driver's fiancee were all hospitalized and Kevin required spinal surgery.
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Since the 1950s, it has offered a reliable read on the spinal center of jazz.
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Also, spinal taps can show whether amyloid and tau proteins are present in cerebrospinal fluid.
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The treatment sent her cancer into remission, but one of the spinal injections triggered seizures.
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Dr. Spence recommended a laminectomy, or decompression surgery, to relieve pressure on the spinal cord.
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The final results noted a spinal-cord injury and evidence of hemorrhaging in the eyes.
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At 14 months, tests revealed that Blake had a moderate form of spinal muscular atrophy.
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She does muscle work along with spinal alignment, and I think it's been really helping!
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He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors found the amoeba in his spinal fluid.
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That has led to breakthroughs in several conditions, including cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy.
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The spinal cord has its own system for receiving input from the legs and responding.
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Wilson-Beattie practiced BDSM before her spinal cord injury, and she still practices it today.
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They ended up talking to someone at the beach who had recently had spinal surgery.
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"Treatments provided by a doctor of chiropractic, such as spinal manipulation, may decrease pain from muscle strain, inflammation and spasm in the back muscles and/or impact the way that the body perceives pain through either the brain or the spinal cord," Goertz added.
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The mechanics of that unusual tongue reminded Smith of an old military diagnostic test for spinal damage from the 1920s, whereby doctors would pinch the jugular vein of a patient to see if it created a corresponding increase in pressure further down the spinal column.
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Lauretti, who did not participate in the study, said spinal manipulation can take different forms, but the most common involves someone lying on their side on a low bench while a chiropractor twists and moves each spinal joint through its normal range of motion.
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Dr. Lee sits Taylor down and explains that the bump between her butt cheeks is a condition called spinal dysraphism, a condition that occurs when a baby's spinal cord doesn't fuse all the way, leaving a nubby nerve ending which pops out around the bottom.
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The operations were carried out over the summer at University College Hospital in London by 30 surgeons to treat spina bifida, a condition in which the spinal column and spinal cord do not develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine.
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Bledsoe said prosecutors think Gray's fatal spinal injury was sustained at that point in the drive.
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"We have to give him a spinal tap," the doctor declares, jogging alongside my rolling bed.
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Anna, 31, was devastated to learn about her spinal cord injury, but grateful to be alive.
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After he completed Catherine's difficult spinal tumor surgery, Koracick found Teddy to brag about his skills.
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The team announced Lasco suffered a spinal cord injury, but he has movement in his extremities.
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"We were the first center in the world to pioneer spinal cord stimulation," Al-Kaisy says.
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Doctors told the six-time All-Star he couldn't play anymore after his second spinal surgery.
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The technique does not work in people whose spinal cords have been completely severed, she said.
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The key obstacle to a head transplant is the restoration of connections in the spinal cord.
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The veteran skipper had to sit out the previous fishing trip because of a spinal infection.
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The gene therapy treats spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death in infants.
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This paralysis is due to a cancerous tumor on Charlie's spinal cord, which requires immediate action.
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Cori was just 4 years old when her 4-month-old baby sister contracted spinal meningitis.
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Zolgensma, the $2.1 million-per-patient treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, posted $160 million in sales.
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This is the point in the ride that prosecutors think Gray sustained his fatal spinal injury.
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"Michael J. Fox recently underwent spinal surgery unrelated to his Parkinson's," his spokesperson Leslie Sloane says.
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Your brain is one cohesive organ and that includes your spinal cord all the way up.
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The onetime treatment delivers life-changing benefits to infants with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare disease.
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Gray died of a spinal cord injury a week later, prompting days of protests and rioting.
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Like polio, AFM affects the body's nervous system -- specifically, the spinal cord -- and can cause paralysis.
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His spinal cord was tethered; he would never walk or have a functioning bladder or bowels.
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He later underwent spinal fusion surgery and had doctors insert a metal frame around his vertebra.
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But with a spinal injury, those signals never reach the brain, so that approach doesn't work.
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It is a type of glioma, a brain or spinal tumor that arises from glial cells.
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The PRI's place as the spinal column of political power may now be taken by Morena.
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"It would radically alter the way we might help people for stroke or spinal-cord injury."
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He's out of money and his latest spinal fusion surgery put him $184k in the red.
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For two years, Cobble underwent surgeries to revise broken spinal rods and to remove her sacrum.
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Chris had suffered an incomplete spinal injury, and over time, some feeling returned to his body.
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When I was 9, I was diagnosed with a serious childhood illness similar to spinal meningitis.
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Cole jumped into Virginia's James River in 2011, shattering his vertebrae and severing his spinal cord.
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Cerebrospinal fluid is a clear, colorless fluid that surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord.
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John Anson, Keith Blum and Gene Khavkin handled 10 head-shot victims and nine spinal injuries.
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He ordered DeVita, his junior, to inject it directly into the spinal cords of his patients.
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And if he still had no answer, he would get a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap.
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At age 24, Susy died from spinal meningitis while her parents and Clara were touring Europe.
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It's not the best method for my street style photo opportunities or for my spinal alignment.
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Zika has also been associated with other neurological disordes, including serious brain and spinal cord infections.
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He has a history of spinal problems and sports-related injuries but no known heart issues.
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Her spinal cord was constricted, and she needed small bone grafts inserted to widen the channel.
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If the spinal cord is affected, there could be motor weakness and difficulty walking, he said.
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Trilobites Solving a hairy math problem might send a shudder of exultation along your spinal cord.
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They can also test fluid around the brain and spinal cord or check nervous system conduction.
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He was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery for broken vertebrae and a spinal hematoma.
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Arrington suffered rib fractures, abdominal injuries and a spinal fracture, for which she underwent multiple surgeries.
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Lyrica can also be used to treat pain from diabetes, shingles, fibromyalgia and spinal cord injuries.
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He gathered his crew on deck to explain that he's got a spinal infection called Osteomyelitis.
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A surgeon would then insert short, expandable rods made from titanium to strengthen the spinal column.
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Falling can cause bone fractures and, occasionally, injuries to internal organs, the brain and spinal cord.
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Spearing blows and spinal injuries prompted an emphasis on head-up, see-what-you-hit tackling.
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They work like this: A steroid is injected into the epidural space within the spinal canal.
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He has been campaigning for years for the F.D.A. to ban Depo-Medrol for spinal use.
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After all, while suffering a stroke after spinal manipulation is rare, research shows the risk exists.
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Was there any other evidence that a problem in the spinal cord was causing the weakness?
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I need MMJ for a traumatic spinal injury I sustained while working as a hospice nurse.
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The F.D.A. approved the treatment for children under 363 with all forms of spinal muscular atrophy.
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Pancho Argüelles works in Texas, accompanying workers who have suffered spinal cord injuries on the job.
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Zika has also been associated with other neurological disorders, including serious brain and spinal cord infections.
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Nine years later, I have had a spinal tap, a kidney biopsy and countless platelet injections.
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Then he had one more operation, a spinal fusion, the most complex of all, in 2017.
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He prefers to receive them whole, fixed in formalin, along with their coverings and spinal cords.
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A spinal tap revealed he was infected with the amoeba, and he died on Sept. 21.
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The results confirmed that their son had a severe spinal defect, but still gave them hope.
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I spoke on the phone with Gerald Rodts, chief of spinal surgery at the Emory Clinic.
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Last year, his spinal surgery was paid for by his Affordable Care Act plan from UnitedHealthcare.
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On May 5, Kerr had a procedure at Duke University to repair a spinal fluid leak.
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One of my lumbar vertebrae burst, and I had emergency spinal-fusion surgery the next day.
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Rogers said she suspects Lundy's difficulty walking is due to damage to his teeny spinal cord.
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The men were subjected to humiliating and often painfully invasive tests and experiments including spinal taps.
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They recommended that patients should try heat, massage, acupuncture or spinal manipulation as first-line therapies.
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A test on spinal fluid correctly eliminates the possibility of Whipple's 97 percent of the time.
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His brother Jim contracted spinal meningitis as a toddler, and lost the use of his legs.
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TMZ broke the story, Kevin messed up his back bad -- 3 spinal fractures that required fusion.
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I had a ton of injuries, which culminated in a rare spinal injury that required surgery.
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Over the years, Shehbaz Sharif has undergone multiple treatments for cancer, including of the spinal cord.
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A doctor makes a miraculous recovery, proving that spinal cord injuries are not permanent and irreversible.
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Nash has a rare neuromuscular disease known as SMARD, or spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress.
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Dublin-based Medtronic generates most of its sales from heart devices, spinal implants and insulin pumps.
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The procedure will be carried out by pediatric spinal surgeon Ramesh Nadarajah, who waived his fees.
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There are a handful of psychological stages involved in coping with a disabling spinal cord injury.
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Several of the wounds punctured his lungs, and one nearly cut his spinal cord in half.
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He will be the first person confirmed to have had spinal paralysis reversed by an operation.
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The suicide rate of Americans with spinal-cord injuries is three times higher than the average.
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AFM is a polio-like illness that affects a person's nervous system, including the spinal cord.
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Thanks to Raisman, his rehabilitation is now funded by the Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation, in London.
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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Zachary Orr announced his retirement after learning he has a congenital spinal condition.
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"You have such a promising spinal-cord injury that I can help you," Tabakow told Fidyka.
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First, it hurts, as nerves send a blast up the spinal cord and into the brain.
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Since then, Buoniconti has become an outspoken activist for research into spinal cord and brain injuries.
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They brought her to the emergency room, where influenza and spinal meningitis tests came back negative.
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When they arrived, Gray was found unresponsive with a broken neck and a compressed spinal cord.
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I endured ten rounds of chemo therapy (each lasting 6 days with 4 24hr bags pumping poison into my body ending with a spinal tap in 3 spots, plus another shot of chemo into my tailbone area up the spinal cord around my brain cavity) ten times!
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I endured ten rounds of chemo therapy (each lasting 6 days with 4/ 24hr bags pumping poison into my body ending with a spinal tap in 3 spots, plus another shot of Chemo into my tailbone area up the spinal cord around my brain cavity) Ten times!
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I endured ten rounds of chemo therapy (each lasting 6 days with 4 24hr bags pumping poison into my body ending with a spinal tap in 3 spots, plus another shot of chemo into my tailbone area up the spinal cord around my brain cavity) ten times!
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"The link between the decoding of the brain and the stimulation of the spinal cord – to make this communication exist – is completely new," said Jocelyne Bloch, a neurosurgeon at the Lausanne University Hospital who surgically placed the brain and spinal cord implants in the monkey experiments.
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In this experiment, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne used electrical implants to bridge the gap in the spinal cord, helping to carry the messages from the brain across the damaged area into a non-damaged part of the spinal cord lower down.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the amoeba in cerebral spinal fluid.
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According to family, he remains paralyzed from the neck down and is expected to undergo spinal surgery.
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AFM affects the nervous system, damaging the area of the spinal cord that's made of grey matter.
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Regardless, Miller's doc says she'll need another spinal surgery, but is resting comfortably after her first operation.
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Levels of tau in patients' spinal fluid were, on average, lower in black people compared to white.
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"This is Spinal Tap" and "The Princess Bride," too bad we couldn't turn things up to 11.
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I plugged in, and without hesitating, in the spirit of Spinal Tap, I cranked it to 11.
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The baby suffered from injuries that ranged from a fractured skull to spinal injuries, the report said.
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The woman's spinal fluid had become trapped by chronic inflammation in the brain caused by inhaling heroin.
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If it reaches the brain or spinal cord, valley fever can cause meningitis, which can be fatal.
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The news was bad: there was a cancerous tumor pressing on Mike's spinal cord, explaining the issues.
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The cancerous tumors were pressing on his spinal cord, eventually robbing him of the ability to walk.
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It's considered a breakthrough in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, a rare and devastating childhood disease.
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Rarely, it can cause a serious infection of the brain and spinal cord called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
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Monkeys implanted with the device were able to walk within six days of the spinal cord injury.
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The 25-year-old Gray died a week later from spinal cord injuries he suffered in custody.
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This specificity is seen as particularly useful in tumours that are near eyes, brains and spinal cords.
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And Juan says his father's spinal cord injury and diabetes impede him from working outside the home.
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She lost her sight in 2012, a result of complications following spinal surgery for Arnold-Chiari syndrome.
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Experts stress that it's crucial to keep an individual's neck isolated when a spinal injury is suspected.
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Last year, Orianne underwent spinal surgery that left her with a partially paralyzed left leg and stomach.
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The technique has already led to a drug for spinal muscular atrophy that was approved last year.
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Jim Burnett was in a motorcycle accident 14 years ago and suffered a serious spinal cord injury.
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Neurons along the creature's spinal cord can act independently via signals called central pattern generators, or CPGs.
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Because it does not require intact reflexes, it is also used for men who have spinal injuries.
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Between 255,000-600,000 Americans can't walk because of paraplegia, or leg paralysis usually linked to spinal damage.
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"The spinal cord is an extension, in a way, of the brain," Molekovic told Motherboard by phone.
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When the spinal cord is injured the signal from the brain to these neural networks gets blocked.
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Robotics in spinal surgery is still in its nascent stages and has faced a lot of skepticism.
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It was after a spinal tap that doctors discovered Mariana had contracted herpes simplex virus type 1.
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These bacteria can enter the bloodstream and lead to severe swelling in the brain and spinal cord.
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Gray, a black man, died after suffering spinal cord injuries in a police van after being arrested.
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The vet said two had just missed her spinal cord and it is a miracle she survived.
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He developed dependencies on painkillers, which was related to a 1965 spinal injury suffered during a pratfall.
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Would you let somebody do a spinal tap on you if they gave you a free blanket?
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"I see quite a lot of spinal changes," Dr. Arkady Lipnitsky of Pain Physicians NY tells PEOPLE.
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The officer, Caesar Goodson, above, drove the van in which Mr. Gray suffered a fatal spinal injury.
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A woman thought she was calling a social worker to help her brother after his spinal surgery.
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In regards to my body, apart from an abscess from injecting, and a spinal fracture, not much.
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Jenny Rellick was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative disease that causes muscles to waste away.
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Hart's 3 spinal fractures required serious rehab and physical therapy ... which he recently updated his fans about.
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During back surgery, surgeons sometimes use spinal spacers meant to match the size of the patient's spine.
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" A year prior to his start, he had starred in and co-wrote "This Is Spinal Tap.
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A medical examiner said in 2014 Williams died from complications of vertebro-spinal injuries, starvation and dehydration.
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He called the C.D.C. immediately, and the amoeba was found in a sample of her spinal fluid.
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His wife said the back problem, known as spinal stenosis, has worsened during his weeks in jail.
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The disease affects deers' brains and spinal cords, leading it to be dubbed the "zombie" deer disease.
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Brock Ervie, a 2300-year-old from Missouri, had a Medtronic spinal cord stimulator implanted in 28.
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Margaret was injured at work 40 years ago, the resulting spinal injury confining her to the wheelchair.
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When I get off the phone with him, finally, some suppressed spinal nerve pings in me, journalistically.
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The major barrier is fusing the spinal cord of the head to that of the donor body.
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Concentrations of the toxic protein were measured in the patients' spinal fluid before and after the injections.
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How about a high-tech "exoskeleton" that provides mobility to victims of stroke and spinal cord injuries?
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Spinal manipulation is often done by chiropractors but may also be offered by physical therapists or physicians.
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Correa spent the past week in intensive care, reportedly with leg fractures and a minor spinal injury.
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A doctor suggested an injection of a steroid medication into the spinal area to reduce the inflammation.
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The tools would be used to repair a severe spinal defect — spina bifida — in her unborn son.
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No one wants to have a second spinal tap because the first one got stuck in traffic.
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Then the researchers incubated a "soup" of bacteriophages with a patient's spinal fluid sample, Dr. Wilson said.
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Woods had spinal fusion surgery in 27 after a series of other operations to address disk problems.
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To help them decide, the doctors came up with a plan: They would order a spinal tap.
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The fluid from the spinal tap had an abnormally high white-blood-cell count, suggesting an infection.
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He hasn't played since suffering a spinal injury in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec.
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She can no longer have children and she can barely move, as her spinal cord was crushed.
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The disease affects deer's brains and spinal cords, leading it to be dubbed the "zombie" deer disease.
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