New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

Yet over the month-long pilot study, “they were getting better and better.” Spinal muscle atrophy or SMA is a genetic disease that gradually destroys motor neurons, nerve cells in the spinal ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength ... muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited disorder that causes muscles to waste away. The treatment increased leg muscle ...