You don't usually call a man "lucky" after he wipes out on a snowmobile, breaks bones, and has to be medevaced to the nearest trauma center.  You do, however, when you realize just how close he came to severing his spinal cord.  Dr. Michael G. Kaiser from the Spine Center was this man's surgeon...

Amazingly, surgeons can take bone from one part of the body and place it in another and it will grow there.  Bone is one of the only tissues in our body that can regenerate in this way.  If you break your leg, for example, not only will the break heal but extra bone grows in. This is called a...

Take this quiz to find out. 1. Would your mother tell you to sit up straight if she saw you working on your laptop? 2. Do you communicate with your friends from your laptop more than in real life? 3. Do your neck and shoulders ache? 4. Do you find time disappears when you are on your...

Just as you can't know a person just by their photo, surgeons can't make clinical decisions based solely on X-Ray or MRI images.  Whether the images look good or bad, they have to consider the whole person. This is especially true when it comes to a degenerative disorder involving the spinal cord...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Neurological Institute (NI). The Institute was founded in 1909 as the first hospital in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to the study and treatment of Neurological disorders. This anniversary inspires us to look back and see how far the field has come. A...