New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

More than 15 million people worldwide are living with spinal cord injury (SCI), which can affect their sensory and motor ...

Nathan Spencer's arms and hands were paralyzed from a virus during childhood, so now he drives with his feet Sara Belcher is a digital news writer/editor at PEOPLE ... using one leg for pedals ...

In a statement to PEOPLE on Thursday ... but he allegedly “bit the other officer’s left leg.” “The individual was taken into custody and transported to NYC Health and Hospitals/Bellevue ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – ...

Nate Statly and his parents spoke for the first time since the MSU shooting on what happens to survivors and lingering legal ...

the condition caused her to lose function in her entire left leg. “Every time that ... polio outbreaks paralyzed more than 15,000 people, mostly children, annually but decreased to less than ...

An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into ...

Scientists have announced that they have used stem cell injections to restore feeling to people paralysed in accidents ... regained sensation in their legs, the scientists reported.

Kyla Barton, 14, suffered paralysis from the waste down after two ... but now the 14-year-old can’t move her legs and her daily schedule is structured around her use of a catheter to empty ...

It was in June 2015 when neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine watched a paralyzed monkey walk that he knew his AI-driven implants would one day do the same for people. “In that moment I knew that ...

That leads muscles to waste away, especially in the legs, hips and shoulders and ... Capogrosso’s team also has tested it to help people paralyzed from strokes or spinal cord injury move their ...