By: Mack Wilson | 2011-02-17 | Health & Fitness Any injury to your head or spinal cord is a potentially serious injury. A spinal injury, depending on which part of the cord is injured, could be totally paralyzing, partially paralyzing, and could affect your ability to breathe among other things. read more
By: Thunder Shark | 2010-12-24 | Health & Fitness About the diameter of a human finger, the spinal cord is connected to the brain and is an important part of the human anatomy. The vertebral column protects the spinal cord as it descends along the middle of the back. read more
By: Richard Hastings | 2010-05-21 | Law Spinal surgery is quite common in today's world. The higher the spinal cord injury one person gets, the more dysfunctional the person will become. Examples of medical malpractice that result from spinal surgery are many. read more
By: SEOTechi | 2010-10-15 | Disabilities About 200,000 people worldwide suffer from spinal cord injury. An injury to the spine often causes the victims to suffer from very serious complications, which always leave him helpless. read more
By: Robert M. Davidson | 2011-05-09 | Wellness Spinal Compression within the back and neck is caused by irregularities within the spinal anatomy that infringe on surrounding spinal nerves, nerve roots, or the spinal cord itself. The spine is made up of vertebrae, inter-vertebral disc's, muscles, ligaments, and joints. read more
By: Chris Behan | 2011-03-10 | Medical Business Spinal stenosis symptoms can arise in different areas of the body. The condition involves the narrowing of the spinal canal, which houses the spinal cord and its nerve roots. The canal is formed by articulating vertebrae from the cervical (neck) to the lumbar (lower back) region of the spine, as well as the sacrum and coccyx bones located near the pelvis... read more
By: Demas123 | 2011-02-20 | Law Accidents happen around us all the time. There are those which are unavoidable and then again there are those which had proper measures had been taken would have avoided life changing injuries such as brain damage and spinal cord trauma. read more
By: Demas123 | 2011-02-03 | Law Accidents are not just accidents, in as much there are some that are unavoidable some are just due to shear negligence on the part of somebody. read more
By: karin | 2011-04-02 | Art Human Anatomy 3D Models are comprised of many organs and body parts. These computer graphics are used everyday to bring thousands of animations to life. They are also used to demonstrate the dynamics of breakthrough surgery or to generate educational renders to show doctors about how to use a medical device. read more
By: Demas123 | 2011-02-20 | Law One of the main life changing injuries no matter your social status in the society is spinal cord in as well as traumatic brain injuries. read more
By: Adriana Noton | 2010-12-23 | Article Marketing A spinal cord injury usually comes about as a result of a sudden or traumatic blow on the spine that either dislocates or fractures the vertebrae. The damage usually takes effect immediately when the disc material and bone fragments tear or bruise the tissues, but the spine is not severed at this time. read more
By: Joseph Devine | 2010-04-03 | Health & Fitness Spinal cord injury is defined as damage to the cells within the spine or the severing of the nerve tracts that send signals up and down the cord as a result of some accident or event. The common types include the following: read more
By: Joseph Devine | 2010-03-26 | Personal injury The spinal cord, though less frequently considered than the brain, plays an almost equally important role in enabling the proper function of many of the body's systems and parts. It serves as the conduit through which electrical signals that communicate vital information between the nervous system and the brain pass. Any injury to the spinal cord can interrupt or terminate the transmission of those messages to specific parts of the body. Typically, this compromise affects the portion of the body below the point of injury, so the severity of a spinal cord injury is greater as it progresses higher up the spine. read more
By: Ken Eng | 2010-03-27 | Health & Fitness Diseases make the largest challenge for doctors, physicians, researchers and patients because in many cases, there are always a number of strains or types of any given disease. Arthritis is very similar in this regard in that there are over 100 known forms of the disease and each one show different symptoms and requires different cures. One of these diseases is spinal arthritis. read more
By: Elton Willis | 2010-12-07 | Health & Fitness Any class of spinal cord injury(SCI) can lead to lingering impairment, regardless of whether the spinal column is irreversibly damaged. The majority of injuries on the spine heal with time. Usually, damage to the actual cord itself entails contusion, compression, lacerations, and CCS (also called central cord syndrome). CCS is a progressively severe range of cervical spinal cord injury read more