Dermatomes are areas of skin that send signals to the brain through the spinal nerves. The dermatome system covers the entire body from the hands and fingers to the feet and toes. The part of a nerve ...

If you’ve ever felt aches or pains that radiate down your legs, you may have been dealing with sciatic nerve pain. The sciatic nerve is the biggest in your body and starts in your back and goes down ...

The muscles of the lower back help stabilize, rotate, flex, and extend the spinal column, which is a bony tower of 24 vertebrae that gives the body structure and houses the spinal cord. The spinal ...

Researchers trying to help people suffering from paralysis after a spinal cord injury or stroke mapped critical brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections that drive voluntary movement in forelimbs, a ...