About three weeks after her son was born, Erika Belt noticed a tiny red spot on his mid-back that was indented. “I asked my pediatrician about it at his 1-month checkup and she said she didn’t know ...

Tethered cord is a debilitating disorder that is poorly understood and hard to diagnose. "I was missing a lot of school,” said 13-year-old Lucky Eschauzier of Braintree, Massachusetts. After a long ...

Tethering of the spinal cord is a condition in which the spinal cord becomes attached to the spinal column via surrounding structures. Normally, the spinal cord hangs loose in the canal, freely moving ...

An evidence review on the diagnosis and treatment of tethered spinal cord, a rare condition affecting the nervous system, found that, while surgery could be a good option for symptomatic patients, ...

A desperate mum looking for answers on a diagnosis for her son's excruciating pain got clarity on his medical condition thanks to a ChatGPT suggestion. The revealing diagnosis - tethered cord syndrome ...

Background A 68-year-old man presented with a history of significant urinary urge incontinence, pollakiuria, and weak bladder sensation. He also reported mild fecal incontinence and a hypotrophic and ...

When 11-year-old Grace Chandy started complaining about back pain, her mother, Judy Chandy, thought her heavy backpack, laden with text books, was to blame. Or maybe growing pains were the culprit.

A boy was diagnosed with a rare condition by ChatGPT after spending three years visiting more than a dozen doctors. Alex was four years old when he began experiencing chronic pain. His mother, ...

A 67 year-old man presented with a life long history of bladder urgency and a 5 year history of progressive weakness and numbness of the lower extremities, worse on the left. His gait had become ...