13 Days of Caring: Spinal Cord Injury Association
On a snow day in March of 1999, life suddenly changed for Debbie Burke. The sixth-grade teacher took her kids sledding at Ottawa Park...
Nose for a cure: Could the key to helping spine injury victims walk be...
Stem cells taken from the nose could help spinal injury victims regain movement, new research suggests.
Tests on paralysed rats showed they were able to...
Spinal Cord Injuries and Taxi Service in New York
When you suffer from a spinal cord injury it doesn't mean that you have to stay at home all the time or be dependent...
Local doctor recovers from spinal cord injury
For decades, he treated patients in the Roanoke Valley as an orthopedic surgeon, but a bicycle accident flipped the script. In an instant,...
Optimism triumphs over the bleakness
KIM RUSSELL, 46, has lived more than half her life with a spinal cord injury. She thinks the words "false" and "hope" don't belong...
A spine-tingling new frontier
One Sydney scientist likens it to the lunar mission; a potentially great but risky step forward. For some people with spinal cord injury -...
Centre for Spinal Cord Injuries
The Association for Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injuries (ARSCI) recently announced the forthcoming launch of Sri Lanka’s first ever Rehabilitation Centre for Spinal Cord...
InVivo nears human trials of spine-injury treatment
Spinal cord injury treatment maker InVivo Therapeutics Corp. has successfully wrapped up preliminary primate studies and is now looking to secure funds to go...
A wheel hands-on experience
IT’S been two minutes and I’ve already got a nasty sweat up.
The carpet looked easy enough, but even my slight frame caused the wheelchair...
Collaboration Between Burnham And HeadNorth
HeadNorth Foundation has pledged $975,000 to Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) to support cutting-edge stem cell research. The funding, part of HeadNorth's Chronic...
