Category Archives: Procedures

Watch This Animated Video of Back Surgery: Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty

Back Surgery Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty

For persons with a back injury. Doctors might recommend Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty procedures. This animated video explains about the spine, its parts, vertebrae and its parts, reasons for spine fractures, compression fractures, non-surgical treatments for spine pain and the need for these procedures. It also explains about brief details about how Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty procedures are done.

Scientists Found a Way To Make Patients With Spinal Cord Injury Walk Again

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It has always been difficult to use implantable neuroprostheses because the neural tissue being soft and prostheses being hard. Scientists from institutes like the following have come with a solution. Institutes includes Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology, Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, Centre for Neuroprosthetics, Institute of Microengineering and Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique […]