This is because each spinal nerve root—one on each side of the body—services a specific area of skin called a dermatome. When a shingles outbreak occurs, only that dermatome on that side of the body ...

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) with electrodes placed over S2-S4 dermatomes ... the same S3 sacral root as the bladder, has reported ...

A shingles rash develops along a dermatome (an area of skin supplied by nerves from a single spinal root), which is why it usually appears as a stripe or band across the skin. This rash has a distinct ...

Here, we identified a circuit, locus coeruleus descending noradrenergic neurons projecting to the spinal dorsal horn (LC →SDH -NA neurons), that is activated by acute exposure to restraint stress and ...

the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows because of arthritis, bone spurs, or other problems.

The doctor will join spinal bones, called vertebrae, together. This limits the motion between them and how far your nerves can stretch. But it probably won’t limit your activity. It’s rare ...

In most cases, there is plenty of room inside the bony portion spine for the spinal cord and nerve roots to be housed comfortably and function normally. However, various conditions, including, ...

eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries or diseases such as ...