Yearly Archives: 2007

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...

Local athlete relates to Kevin Everett’s injury

ROCHESTER - Although he never played professional football Anthony Salmon knows about sports and spinal cord injuries. It happened almost exactly four years ago. During...

Spinal Cord Injuries Often Life-Changing Events

(Buffalo, NY) - - Spinal cord injuries are often life-changing events. Monday night Doctor Peter Ostrow has even more from a local neurosurgeon on...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...