background: cervical spondylotic myelopathy (csm) is a common cause of significant clinical morbidity. the japanese orthopedic association cervical myelopathy evaluation questionnaire (joacmeq) is a measure of health-related quality of life in these patients. objectives: this study aimed to cross-culturally translate and validate the joacmeq in iran. patients and methods: this study was a prosp...

objective: spinal cord injury (sci) causes inflammation, deformity and cell loss. it has been shown that melissa officinalis (mo), as herbal medicine, and dexamethasone (dex) are useful in the prevention of various neurological diseases. the present study evaluated combinational effects of dex and mo on spinal cord injury. materials and methods: thirty six adult male wistar rats were used in th...

Introduction Numerous diseases can result in signs of spinal cord dysfunction (LeCouteur et al., 1995). Included in this group of diseases are those, such as intervertebral disc disease, that compress or distort the cord from an extradural location and those diseases that arise from within the spinal cord parenchyma itself. With the advent of newer spinal imaging modalities, the ability to ‘see...

The objective of this article is to review the recent literature that reports on the most common diseases affecting the spinal cord of cats, and to draw some general conclusions that will be useful to formulate diagnosis and prognosis for feline spinal patients. The most common types of feline spinal cord diseases documented were inflammatory/infectious diseases, and feline infectious peritonit...

We review the current knowledge concerning clinical applications of the advanced technique of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the spinal cord. Due to technical difficulties, DTI has rarely been used in spinal cord diseases. However, in our opinion it is potentially a very useful method in diagnosis of the different pathological processes of the spinal cord an...

Tanshinone IIA serves as a coenzyme for certain biochemical reactions, exhibiting various pharmacological effects in the treatment of neurological diseases including spinal cord injury (SCI), however, its working mechanism SCI is not clear. Based on previous research, we believe that tanshinone promotes survival and repair nerves after through such anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, prevention cel...

Diseases of the aorta and surgery of the aorta can produce spinal cord damage. There are major variations in blood supply to the spinal cord between individuals. The spinal cord may be tamponaded by increased spinal fluid pressure subsequent to clamping the aorta. Both of these factors may contribute to spinal cord infarction. The available methods and procedures to protect the spinal cord duri...