The peripheral nervous system is the network of nerves strands that branch off from the left and right sides of the spinal cord through openings between each vertebra on the spinal canal. These nerve ...

Imperial College London. "Prosthetic arm technology detects spinal nerve signals." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 February 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 02 / 170206111903.htm>.

A procedure in which working nerves are rerouted to paralyzed muscles has shown improvements in hand and arm function, giving patients with spinal cord injury "a whole new realm of independence." ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center. "Regeneration of spinal nerve cells boosted." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 October 2016. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 10 / 161012102702.htm>.

The obturator nerve location spans from your lumbar spine to your thigh, and it resembles a forking river. The top of the nerve is rooted in spinal nerves L2, L3, and L4.

‌Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get ...

In fact, we generate an entirely new set of olfactory nerves every six to eight weeks or so. Put the cells in another part of the CNS and, apparently, they keep on regenerating.

Discectomy: During this procedure, the surgeon removes part of the spinal disc to relieve pressure on the compromised spinal nerve. Laminectomy: This involves a surgeon removing a layer of ...

Spinal stenosis occurs when the space around your spinal cord narrows and causes pressure on your nerve roots. The main cause is wear-and-tear arthritis (osteoarthritis). As cartilage wears away ...