When Adam Fritz suffered a T6 spinal cord injury in 2008, he became paralyzed from the waist down. Since then, Fritz has gone to physical therapy to regain his strength and reach certain milestones, ...

Spinal cord injuries or disease (SCI/D) can be devastating, both for the person who suffered the injury and their loved ones. Since the spinal cord relays messages between the brain and the rest of ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What happens during a spinal adjustment? Can professionals other than chiropractors safely do spinal adjustments? ANSWER: Chiropractors commonly perform spinal adjustments, also ...

The spinal cord is a long bundle of nerves and cells that extends from the lower portion of the brain to the lower back. Spinal cord functions include carrying signals between the brain and the rest ...

In order to assess their dyadic adjustment in relation to personality variables, 32 couples in whom the husbands had sustained serious spinal cord injuries individually took the Dyadic Adjustment ...

Your autonomic nervous system controls things that your body does without having to think about it, such as breathing and digesting. Autonomic dysreflexia (sometimes also called hyperreflexia) is a ...

A 63 year-old man presented with a two month history of mid-back pain followed by rapidly progressive paraplegia and incontinence over 24 hours. He had a history of a nephrectomy years earlier for ...