DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have demonstrated for the first time that stimulating a specific nerve in the pelvis triggers the process that ...

Michel Roccati lost the ability to walk after a motorcycle accident in 2017, when he had a complete spinal cord injury.But today, equipped with an electrode device implanted on his spinal cord, ...

Spine surgery that requires you to be conscious? Before Kim Lipinski underwent this unusual surgery, she endured a stabbing pain emanating from her spine that just wouldn't go away. Neurosurgeon Dr.

The participants had 16-electrode devices implanted in the epidural space, an area between the vertebrae and the spinal cord membrane. The electrodes receive currents from a pacemaker implanted under ...