For work identifying a novel therapeutic target to improve walking after SCI, Newton Cho is the 2025 winner of the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation. The prize rewards innovative research that ...

Scar tissue, too. There is work to be done here. He would be operating near the spinal cord, among the most perilous parts of the body for a surgeon, along with the brain, but Sampath is calm.

Transformative gains About 250,000 to 400,000 Americans live with a spinal cord injury, and roughly 18,000 more will develop one, usually from traumatic events such as car crashes, each year ...

There's a treatment helping chronic pain patients by disrupting pain signals in the body from getting to the brain.

About 18,000 Americans suffer spinal cord injuries every year and about 60% are left with limited or no hand or arm function, said Edelle Field-Fote, another researcher on the project and director ...