These nerves travel from your spinal cord to your buttocks and legs ... Understanding the basic anatomy of the five lumbar bones that make up your low back can help you get the right treatment ...

While the rest of the nerves emerge from the spinal cord, the cranial nerves come directly from your brain. Most start at the brainstem, which sits low at the back of your brain and connects the ...

The process may someday be used in humans with spinal cord injuries to minimize or reverse the damage to nerve cells that results in paralysis, says Richard B. Borgens, professor of developmental ...