A 67 year-old man presented with a life long history of bladder urgency and a 5 year history of progressive weakness and numbness of the lower extremities, worse on the left. His gait had become ...

Tethered cord is a debilitating disorder that is poorly understood and hard to diagnose. "I was missing a lot of school,” said 13-year-old Lucky Eschauzier of Braintree, Massachusetts. After a long ...

An evidence review on the diagnosis and treatment of tethered spinal cord, a rare condition affecting the nervous system, found that, while surgery could be a good option for symptomatic patients, ...

Tethered spinal cord syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where the spinal cord is attached, or tethered, to the tissues around the spine. This tethering of the spinal cord restricts its movements ...