19 December 2019

Horatio’s Garden opens their fourth garden in the Centre for Spinal Injuries in Oswestry

Horatio’s Garden Oswestry was officially opened in September by Sir Algernon Heber-Percy (pictured) to support spinal injury patients and their...

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12 December 2019

OmniVision announce Guinness World Record for smallest image sensor and new miniature camera module for disposable medical applications

The smallest image sensor commercially available provides high quality images from the smallest parts of anatomy, for brain, ophthalmic, ENT,...

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5 December 2019

Animal-assisted therapy aids in spinal cord injury recovery

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have partnered with Hand in Paw, Alabama’s animal-assisted therapy (AAT) provider, to assess the efficacy...

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28 November 2019

Regenerative medicine technology targets cause of low back pain

Regenerative medicine technology tBiomedical engineering professors Devina Purmessur and Natalia Higuita-Castro are leading an interdisciplinary team at The Ohio State...

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26 November 2019

Survey reveals 80 per cent of women are unaware that sacroiliac joint issues are a leading cause of chronic lower back pain after pregnancy

A survey of 1,000 women (age 35 to 60) conducted by SI-BONE Inc., found that 86 per cent of respondents...

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21 November 2019

Researchers explore spinal discs’ early response to injury and ways to improve it

Researchers may have found a way to press pause on spinal disc injuries, giving doctors more time to treat them...

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19 November 2019

Screening for cervical spine risk factors could reduce CT scans by half

An estimated eight million children suffer blunt trauma annually, and while cervical spine injury (CSI) is serious, it is uncommon....

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17 October 2019

Spinal registry launched to improve surgical outcomes for patients

Northgate Public Services (NPS) has created a spinal registry for EUROSPINE, an organisation dedicated to improving the outcomes for patients with spinal and neck...

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