The thoracic spine serves many functions. It protects the spinal cord, the bundle of nerves that extend from your brain to the body. It provides an attachment point for your ribs and helps with ...

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the patient's cervical and thoracic spine was obtained which ... with diseases involving peripheral nerves. Subsequently in 1868, Charcot described ...

“Irreversible damage to the nerves in the thoracic spine has the potential to cause paralysis of the legs or the lower body,” said Chirantan Suhrid, a surgeon in a government hospital in Mumbai. A 2.5 ...