Paralysis / Spinal Cord
Of all the catastrophic injuries, spinal cord injury is the most complex. Spinal cord injury is an uncommon condition that has significant impact on...
Rehabilitation program challenges people with spinal cord injuries.
Perched 60 feet above the ground and alongside a cliff at Mississippi Palisades State Park, first-time rock climber Joel Irizarry took a quick breather....
Current Understanding
To understand how treatment for spinal cord injury can be improved, it is important to understand the normal spinal cord and its functions, how...
Secondary damage
Damage to the spinal cord does not stop with the initial injury, but continues in the hours following trauma. Paradoxically, this delayed, secondary damage...
Nervous System — Groups of Nerves
Your nervous system is composed of the Central Nervous System, the cranial nerves, and the Peripheral nerves. The brain and spinal cord together...
The National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA)
NWBA MISSION STATEMENT
A Winning Strategy
The National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) is the nation's oldest and largest Disability sport organization. Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado,...
Wheelchair tennis is growing
Wheelchair tennis is growing rapidly at the University of Arizona as players from all over the country are drawn by the year-round play and...
No ‘high’ from cannabis pain drugs?
Scientists believe they may have found a way for cannabis chemicals to relieve chronic pain - without the "high" linked with the drug.
The team,...
‘I remember what it was like to have nothing – no feeling’
Melissa Holley, the first person in the world to get macrophage injections for a spinal cord injury, is a believer.
"I can't ignore the fact...
‘I would do anything . . . if there was any chance’
Eric Coffman, of Denver, was a 19-year-old Colorado School of Mines student when he damaged his spinal cord snowboarding in 2001.
He flew to Israel...
