Yearly Archives: 2011
Less Pain With New Treatment For Spinal Cord Injuries
Rutgers researchers have developed an innovative new treatment that could help minimize nerve damage in spinal cord injuries, promote tissue healing and minimize pain.
After...
LSU project aims to help quadripalegics gain mobility
Like probably every other person with a severe spinal cord injury, Sloan Deumite wants to walk again. Ten LSU engineering students have spent much...
How wheelchair skills can give you independence
Life in a wheelchair isn't as limiting as you'd expect, once you've learned the moves
The first time I got into a wheelchair I felt...
1st Rex commercial bionic legs go to Paralympian
Less than a year after unveiling a pair robotic legs that let paraplegics stand and walk, New Zealand's Rex Bionics has made its first...
Pascagoula woman’s determination inspires loved ones, strangers
PASCAGOULA -- "When life gives you trying situations, I don't say, 'Why me, I say try me.' "
That's the slogan on T-shirts that are...
Neurogenic bladder overactivity improved with botulinum toxin A injections
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Injections of onabotulinumtoxinA, better known as Botox, significantly reduce urinary incontinence due to neurogenic detrusor overactivity in patients with...
LP Accessible Technologies
Accessible Gaming Technologies
Why spinal injuries are not what we see on TV
Spinal injuries can certainly be serious, but they don't always have to spell an end to life as we know it
THIRTY-ONE years ago Colm...
David Weir: ‘I have never seen myself as disabled’
He won last week's Marathon for a fifth time; now London 2012 is firmly in his sights
We have all seen those Q and A...
Bike Stimulator Helping Patients with Spine Injuries
It looks like a cross between an abdominal exerciser and a stationary bike, but it’s a revolutionary approach to treating patients with spinal cord...
