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Jered Chinnock's smile widens as he recalls the first day researchers at Mayo Clinic activated an electronic stimulator implanted on his damaged spinal cord ...
This rare, inherited disease causes a buildup of fatty acids that damages the brain and typically results in muscle control loss, blindness and paralysis.
But NMO is a different condition. Neuromyelitis optica can cause blindness in one or both eyes, weakness or paralysis in the legs or arms, and painful spasms.
Permanent paralysis and other serious complications can result. Assume a person has a spinal injury if: There's evidence of a head injury with an ongoing ...
In rare instances, emergency surgery might be needed to avoid permanent weakness or paralysis. Seek emergency medical attention if you have: Worsening ...
Lab tests. The doctor might take samples of the fluid around the brain and spinal cord (cerebrospinal fluid), respiratory fluid, blood, and stool for lab ...
Infection from the polio virus once caused paralysis and death. However, the ... Today, very few people in developed countries are paralyzed from the ...
... Paralysis Due to Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury" is published in the Nov. 27 ... paralysis from spinal cord injury. Dr. Bydon adds that much like early ...
When a healthy 20-year-old in Rockland County, New York, presented in an emergency room earlier this year with sudden leg paralysis, the diagnosis of polio took ...
Weakness, numbness or paralysis in the face, arm or leg, typically on one side of the body. Slurred speech or trouble understanding others. Blindness in one ...
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