The Spinal Cord Injury Model System of Care Program was established via Congressional Act in 1970 to maintain and improve a cost-effective, comprehensive service delivery system for people who incur a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the expanded use of Onward Medical’s ARC-EX System, now permitting individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) to use the ...

Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) has been linked to an elevated long-term risk of developing neurologic, psychiatric, cardiovascular, and endocrine comorbidities, highlighting the need for ...

Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) patients lose body weight and muscle mass, despite being on a high-calorie diet while in the intensive care unit. Their muscle wasting is substantial and extends beyond ...

Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...