After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to ...

David Julius and Wendy Yue have discovered a natural mechanism that could help reduce scarring after a spinal cord injury.

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Tiger Woods had another surgery on his lower back Friday. He hopes this one will relieve some of the spasms he experienced.

In a brief statement on social media, Woods described it as surgery of the lumbar spine for nerve impingement on the lower back. That is also referred to as a microdiscectomy, and the recovery ...

In a brief statement on social media, Woods described it as a microdecompression surgery of the lumbar spine for nerve impingement on the lower back. That also is referred to as a microdiscectomy ...

Tiger Woods had another surgery on his lower back — his sixth in the past 10 years — on Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve some of the spasms he experienced this year. In a brief ...