Several types of doctors can make a spinal stenosis diagnosis, but it’s likely that you’ll begin by consulting with your primary care physician when you first experience symptoms of pain, tingling, numbness, or weakness in the back, neck, and/or extremities. Your primary care physician will probably perform a physical exam and review your symptoms, but [...]
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Most people are free of daily chronic pain such as can occur with spinal stenosis and so don’t understand how back pain can ruin your life, affecting your work, relationships, family, and recreation. Chronic pain of any kind is associated with an increased rate of depression, with back pain found to increase the likelihood of [...]
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Most people are free of daily chronic pain such as can occur with spinal stenosis and so don’t understand how back pain can ruin your life, affecting your work, relationships, family, and recreation. Chronic pain of any kind is associated with an increased rate of depression, with back pain found to increase the likelihood of [...]
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Tweet A study looking at the effect of stem cell injections for osteoarthritis in the knees is recruiting participants currently; unfortunately, this is yet another stem cell study taking place in Iran, making it extremely unlikely that most will be able to get involved. The Royan Institute’s clinical trial (NCT01504464) into intra-articular injections of mesenchymal [...]
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Tweet A study into the use of autologous stem cell treatment for Multiple Sclerosis is currently recruiting patients and hopes to establish the safety and incidence of side-effects for this novel therapy using patients’ own cells to treat their condition. Based at the Royan Institute in Iran, the study’s directors aim to recruit thirty patients, [...]
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Tweet For many years it was thought that stem cells were found only in embryos and bone marrow but restrictions on research and scientific enthusiasm means that answering the question ‘where can you find stem cells?’ gives a vastly different response to just a decade ago. Stem cells are found in all multicellular organisms and [...]
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If you have degenerative disc disease in your neck (or the cervical region of the spine), you should know that the condition is a fairly common cause of neck pain. It is characterized by the dehydration and weakening of your intervertebral discs over time and the normal wear and tear process. Although many individuals aren’t [...]
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Managing your spinal stenosis symptoms can prove to be difficult when you have a full schedule that involves work, hobbies, family, friends, and/or pets. It’s important to keep in mind that an initial course of conservative treatment for your spinal stenosis will be more easily managed if it doesn’t disrupt your day-to-day activities too much, [...]
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Tweet Identifying stem cells has become easier as stem cell technologies have been developed over recent years. Answering the question ‘what is a stem cell?’ involves an understanding of the way that cells behave in the body, the laboratory, and after medical procedures. Simply, a stem cell is a cell with the potential to regenerate [...]
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Spondylolisthesis in the neck, or displacement of the cervical vertebrae, is usually a result of traumatic injury or the gradual development of small fractures within the vertebrae. Vertebral slippage is much more common in the lumbar (lower back) region of the spine than in the cervical (neck) region. However, fractures to a small bony segment [...]
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