A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

Researchers have shown that a spinal cord-stimulating implant, originally used for paralysis, may help restore muscle ...

A new spinal cord implant may help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) regain some muscle function, giving the ...

How a tiny spinal implant could help those with muscle-wasting disease - Three people with a muscle-destroying disease got ...

but it can also refer to other kind of neurodegenerative disease that affect the motor neurons, such as progressive primary lateral sclerosis, progressive muscular atrophy and progressive bulpar ...

There was no other hope for me.” “Then I thought, ‘I need to do something.'” MND is characterised by progressive muscle atrophy, the wasting of muscle mass. It affects over 5,000 people at any one ...

Parry-Romberg Syndrome (PRS) is primarily characterized by the progressive shrinkage (atrophy) of soft tissues ... Helps maintain facial muscle function and prevents further decline in muscle strength ...