Yearly Archives: 2000
Thank Goodness for Friends
The Beatles song "I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends" could be my theme song. Literally. I need a lot of...
Pig Snouts Used to Treat Spinal Cord Injury
In a recent study, scientists used cells from pig snouts to successfully repair severed spinal cords in rats. The pig cells were engineered so...
Life Satisfaction Among Persons with Spinal Cord Injuries
Every year, approximately 10,000 persons in the United States, typically young adults (New Mobility, 1996), seriously injure their spinal cords and become permanently paralyzed....
Exacerbating cervical spine injury by applying a hard collar.
Neck immobilisation is vital in patients with suspected Cervical spine injuries and generally involves applying a hard cervical collar--usually by ambulance crew, nurses, or...
TYPES OF SPINAL INJURY
Traumatic spinal cord injuries are associated with skeletal and ligamentous as well as intraspinal pathology. The most common Cervical level for spinal cord...
Sexual problems of disabled patients
ABC of sexual health
Almost 4% of the UK population have some form of physical, sensory, or intellectual Impairment--almost 2.5 million people. Many of these...
A Comparison Between People with Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe traumatic Disability that occurs suddenly and affects both sensory and Motor functions. According to the National Spinal...
To Walk Again or Not Walk Again
I was listening to a tape on the Internet at Greg Smith's On-A-Roll Talk Radio on Life and Disability (excellent site by the way)....
