Tight End Likely Paralyzed After Injury
(CBS/AP) Kevin Everett sustained a "catastrophic" and life-threatening spinal-cord injury while trying to make a tackle during the Buffalo Bills' season opener and is...
Bills Everett Undergoes Surgery for Spinal Cord Injury
Reserve Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett suffered a horrible injury to start the second half of yesterday’s game against the Bills. And now,...
Bills Tight End Suffers Serious Injury
Kevin Everett had surgery Sunday evening, hours after the Buffalo Bills reserve tight end showed no signs of movement after sustaining a Cervical spine...
Spine surgery: Timing matters!
TORONTO, Canada – About 300,000 Americans are in wheelchairs due to spinal cord injuries. Many patients will recover at least some function in their...
Plager lives life full-speed ahead
The dining room table in Angie Plager's living room is taller than most. So is her computer desk. The furniture is arranged along the...
New DVD aimed at reducing spinal injuries
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Football players usually hoot and holler when viewing tapes of bone-crunching hits.
Recently, however, the West Florida High Jaguars could only gasp...
Leechburg football player recovering from spinal injury
Leechburg freshman football player Keeton Hayes was in fair condition Wednesday night at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh after suffering a spinal injury during practice...
Skin stem cells used to mend spines of rats
A Toronto-led team of researchers has found a way to use stem cells derived from skin to treat spinal cord injuries in rats.
The finding...
In poor countries, spinal injury still means death
LONDON (Reuters) - A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the...
Mobility treatment
A team at University College London is developing a spinal canal implant that could improve the quality of life and life expectancy for people...
