A new study published in The BMJ shows that people who had surgery to improve blood flow in their legs under spinal or epidural anesthesia were less likely to die than those who were given general ...
Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...
Four research participants with chronic, complete cervical spinal cord injury, persistent low resting blood pressure and blood pressure decrease when sitting up experienced improvements in blood ...
Epidural spinal cord stimulation can raise blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) in patients with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) who suffer from orthostatic hypotension, preliminary research ...
Epidural steroid injections are a minimally invasive option for people experiencing spinal stenosis, herniated discs, and so much more. Xavier met with Dr. Jay Jagannathan of Jagannathan Neurosurgery ...
Lumbar epidural steroid injections (LESIs) are associated with a heightened risk for infection after lumbar spine decompression surgery, a new meta-analysis shows. In a review that included more than ...
Spinal cord stimulators, also called dorsal column stimulators, help reduce chronic pain. They’re implanted into your spine to block pain signals from reaching your brain. Spinal cord stimulators ...
Acute compression of the spinal cord is a devastating but treatable disorder. Diseases that cause acute spinal cord compression constitute a special category because they originate in the spinal ...