Yearly Archives: 2007
Resident says city is balking on wheelchair ramp promise
Pamela Bell has been disabled for more than three years.
When a spinal cord injury eventually made the Jacksonville resident wheelchair bound a year and...
Goal Driven
Despite challenges, Lindsay Heimkes still making strides
FILER - In 2006, Lindsay Heimkes joined the ranks of the more than 11,000 spinal cord injury cases...
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...
