Borrow a Book or Video from the Reeve Library
The Reeve Foundation's Paralysis Resource Center has the largest known collection of books and videos on paralysis. You can use our online catalog to...
Service Dogs to the Rescue!
Service dogs do more than just help the visually impaired navigate a crosswalk. Someone living with paralysis could use a service dog, typically Labrador...
ADA publishes practice guidelines for nutrition care for patients with spinal cord injury
The American Dietetic Association has published new evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines for registered dietitians on nutrition care for patients with spinal cord injury.
The guidelines...
The scourge of bedsores is being confronted
What do you know about bedsores? They come from too much pressure on your skin in one place for too long. If you are...
Understanding Spinal Injury – Complete and Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
In the evaluation of spinal injuries, they are often classified as complete or incomplete injuries. Traditionally, a complete spinal cord injury meant that there...
Paralysis is a Catastrophic Injury
For an injury to be considered catastrophic, it must occur without any warning. It must also disrupt your life is some way, whether by...
Infiltrating blood-derived macrophages are vital cells in recovery from spinal cord injury in mice
Although macrophages (MΦ) are known as essential players in wound healing, their contribution to recovery from spinal cord injury (SCI) is a subject of...
Understanding The Aspects Of Stem Cell Therapy
Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have in them the attendance of two defining properties which makes them unique and a very interesting subject...
Spinal Cord Injuries – Is there Hope?
Turning tragic events into opportunities for others
There are many flashing lights in our lives – when we see “green” we speed right on through...
The dormant potential of damaged nerve cells
Damaged nerve cells in a finger will regrow, but those in the spinal cord do not. Why the difference? Scientists at the Max Planck...
