Yearly Archives: 2011
Customized Assistive Devices for People With Spinal Cord Injuries
The first active orthosis prototype, developed at the UPC, assists muscles affected by incomplete spinal cord injury.
A team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering...
A New Hope for Treating Spinal Cord Injury: 5 Points on InVivo Therapeutics’ Technology
InVivo Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass., was founded to focus on research and development of treatment for patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Currently,...
Electronic stimulation shows promise for quadriplegics
Harmandeep Saini needed someone to feed him, brush his teeth, give him his medication and put his bus token in the fare box after...
Man with Spinal Cord Injury Uses Brain Computer Interface to Move Prosthetic Arm with...
New Trial Underway at University of Pittsburgh, UPMC
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10, 2011 – Seven years after a motorcycle accident damaged his spinal cord and left...
The cure for paralysis?
In May 2011, UC Irvine opened the doors to the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, a 100,000 square foot facility that...
How Electrical Pulses Can Defeat Paralysis
Four scientists—and their star patient—received a 2011 PM Breakthrough Award for a new procedure that uses direct electrical stimulation to give spinal injury patients...
Paraplegic guitar builder in tune with his craft
Orders for custom built guitars are backed up these days for Mike Trelenberg, a luthier from 100 Mile House who now makes his home...
Commonly used supplement may improve recovery from spinal cord injuries
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A commonly used supplement is likely to improve outcomes and recovery for individuals who sustain a spinal cord injury (SCI), according...
Yoga won’t help me walk again. But it has allowed me to ‘feel’ my...
The mention of this ancient exercise system may conjure images incense-filled rooms, but its principles can offer practical benefits to the disabled
I have never...
What is the potential of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells to successfully treat human spinal cord...
Spinal cord injury is a serious and debilitating condition, affecting millions of people worldwide. Long seen as a permanent injury, recent advances in stem...
