Yearly Archives: 2012
Physiotherapy Exercises for People with Spinal Cord Injuries
A site for physiotherapists containing over 750 exercises appropriate for people with spinal cord injuries and other neurological disabilities. Users can select exercises to...
Free Webinar: Rehab Solutions Functional Electrical Stimulation
National Spinal Cord Injury Association Webinar Health Series
Join the National Spinal Cord Injury Association on March 13th for a Free Webinar on the emerging...
Parsons to share paralysis experience
It was a snap decision on a warm August day in 1998 that changed Cory Parsons’s life forever.
A few days earlier, Parsons, a rambunctious...
Doctor looks to China for spinal injury ‘cure’
US-based Doctor Wise Young first used the word "cure" in relation to his work after a conversation with Reeve, the "Superman" hero who became...
Regenerative Medicine Back on Fast Track
After decades of frustratingly slow progress, regenerative medicine is buoyed by optimism.
After decades of controversy and frustratingly slow progress, the stem cell field seems...
New research shows how motor neurones are produced
The quest for treatments for motor neurone disease, spinal cord injury and strokes could be helped by new research that shows how key cells...
Equipped: Differently-abled get hi-tech wheelchairs
ISLAMABAD: Disability is in the environment, not the person. “These customised wheelchairs that we have received today will bridge the gap between the differently-abled...
No cure for spine injuries – but hope
With research offering promise, the focus of treatment has changed.
Brendan Loney can't move his legs, but once a week, he sure does run.
Suspended by...
Study to probe heart health, spinal cord injury link
VANCOUVER — Marni Abbott-Peter has won three gold medals over years of playing basketball around the globe.
It wasn't until she got out of the...
Spinal injury researchers urge quick surgery
'Timing for a spinal cord injury matters,' Toronto head of North American study says
Timing appears to be everything when it comes to surgery to...
