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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Road to Recovery

One warm summer evening, Tamara Mena-Perez lay in her bed gazing at a row of medication bottles on her dresser. She started getting angry. It...

Warrick Holdman out for 3 months with spinal cord injury

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos linebacker Warrick Holdman has been advised by doctors not to play football for three months after suffering a spinal...

Wheels turn as Allore reiterates vow to walk again

Ken Allore has never given up hope that one day he will walk again. Allore is determined to do what he can to make...

Stem Cell Scientist Sets Record Straight on Spinal Cord Injury Trials

There's been lots of confusion and some mischaracterizations about when the first embryonic stem cell clinical trial might take place and what it might...

RRTC Web Cast on Pain and Spinal Cord Injury -Monday August 13

The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Spinal Cord Injury (RRTC on SCI) for a Web cast on Pain and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)....

Injury gives athlete opportunities

Most people might not say a spinal cord injury is a positive event in their lives. Brian Sheridan does. A life-long athlete who had hoped...

Fundraiser today for local girl with spinal injury

A fundraiser car wash will be held today at the Lemoore Kmart to help raise money for a 19-year-old local resident who received major...

A Step Forward In Understanding Tissue Damage After Spinal Cord Injury

Acute spinal cord injury can damage spinal cord tissue and result in loss of functions such as mobility or feeling. In a study appearing online...

Terry Using Environmental Control

Terry uses an Environmental Control system to control equipment in his home to enable him to be as independent as possible.