7 December 2016

Patients set to attend ‘surgery school’ in Southampton in effort to get fit for surgery

Southampton teaching hospitals have launched a weekly ‘surgery school’ designed to prepare patients mentally and physically for their operation. Professor Mike...

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5 December 2016

High-frequency spinal cord stimulation ‘offers back and leg pain benefits’

High-frequency spinal cord stimulation may be a beneficial new treatment option for patients with severe chronic back and leg pain,...

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2 December 2016

Scientists develop graphene nanoribbons to help knit together severed and damaged spinal cords

The combination of graphene nanoribbons made with a process developed at Rice University and a common polymer could someday be...

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21 November 2016

Clinical and retrieval evidence for corrosion of spine implants

Vasiliki Panagiotopoulou demonstrates the importance of understanding the mechanisms in the multifactorial cause for failure in spinal implants   All prosthetic...

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31 October 2016

Spinal injury and ‘biorobotic control’ of the bladder

There are many challenges facing people with spinal cord injury – and walking again is often the least of their...

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28 October 2016

Consultant spine surgeon Bengt Sturesson talks sacroiliac joint pain

Bengt Sturesson, of the Department of Orthopaedics, Ängelholm Hospital, Sweden, talks to Spinal Surgery News about the role of the...

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24 October 2016

Half of UK doctors planning to practise abroad

Almost half of doctors are looking to move abroad as their current experience of being a doctor is worse than they...

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21 October 2016

INSPIRED: A quantifiable multi-centre spinal cord neuro-imaging project

MRI scanning has revolutionised diagnosis in many fields of medicine but has proved difficult to use in spinal cord injury....

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