Monthly Archives: July 2007
Radiation therapy combined with microsurgery shows promise for curing injured spinal cord
Research on rats with crushed spinal cords, similar to human injury, reveals that treatment soon after injury combining radiation therapy to destroy harmful cells...
Walking The Walk
Harvard senior Allison Kessler, 22, had to take a break from serving as coxswain of her university's men's rowing team this semester. She wanted...
Insurer ordered to pay after herpes leaves man paralyzed
An insurance company has been ordered to compensate a Lower Mainland man after a sexually transmitted disease left him a Paraplegic.
Randolph Charles Gibbens lost...
Paralympian creates ‘fashion-able’ clothes
Teri Thorson doesn’t think people in wheelchairs should have to choose between fashion and function.
The former Paralympian wheelchair racer is launching her own line...
Treatment Gets Partially Paralyzed Upright Again
(CBS13) Bob Konieczko became partially paralyzed after falling off a roof. For the past three years, he's been mostly confined to wheel chair but...
Web daredevils risk lives
YOUNG daredevils are flirting with disaster for the entire world to see in an alarming new wave of "Free Running" footage that is making...
A Severe Injury Brings Concern, and a Call for Insurance
CLEVELAND, July 19 — While the storm clouds were still forming, before they eventually rained out competition Thursday at the Dew Action Sports Tour...
Disaboom Becomes Umbrella Sponsor for Life Rolls On Foundation
DENVER, CO--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 18, 2007 -- Disaboom, Inc. (OTC BB:DSBO.OB - News), which is developing the first online community for people living with or...
Teacher’s reach extends beyond classroom
When Tiffany Nickel tells her special education students that their disabilities are no excuse for not achieving, they know she's not just saying that....
Psychological or physiological
Why are tetraplegic patients content?
Objective: To assess the effects of spinal cord injury (SCI) on perceived health-related quality of life (QOL).
Background: SCI is physically...
