Yearly Archives: 2005
Facts about spinal injuries can reduce first aid fear
Before doing so, immobilize the head as much as possible using rolled up shirts, blankets or towels and check for neck and back injuries....
Allie is back up and running, make that wheeling, around
STATE CENTER - By anyone's measure, Marshall County Deputy and D.A.R.E. Officer Steve Sodders is a hero simply by the very nature of his...
Company gets rights to paralysis treatment
By Max Showalter, Journal and Courier
A life sciences company formed just four months ago in the Purdue Research Park has been given the green...
New Business Holds Promise for Spinal Cord Injury Treatment
(Indianapolis) – A new business venture was announced Thursday which could revolutionize treatment for people with paralyzing spinal cord injuries. The news is another...
Arena player dies from game injury
An Arena Football League lineman died yesterday after suffering an apparent spinal cord injury in a game against the Dragons in Los Angeles.
Al Lucas,...
UCI Skips HQ for Stem Cell Work
By Rick Reiff - Orange County Business Journal Staff
Ten areas are bidding to become the headquarters for the California Institute of Regenera-tive Medicine, the...
Work on wheels: Disproving the myths of disability
As a Physical Therapy student in the 1970s, Thomas Holtackers learned to help individuals overcome injuries that interfered with their daily functioning.
Now a Physical...
Dole Discloses Emergency That Nearly Took His Life
Former Senator Bob Dole, whose life was shaped by a devastating war injury, suffered a medical emergency earlier this year that doctors told him...
Woll lobbying for Reeve Paralysis Act
About seven years ago, Barry Woll was driving down I-485 on a warm, sunny afternoon, headed to the golf course to meet a client.He...
Embracing challenges
Snowmass Village - Mario Uribe didn't believe.
With his right leg and left arm missing since his exposure to radiation while in the armed services...
