Monthly Archives: July 2013
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Awards 74 Nonprofit Organizations Quality of Life Grants
Short Hills, N.J. - (July 11, 2013) The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation announced it has awarded over $500,000 in Quality of Life Grants...
Austin Spinal Cord Injury Patient Pays It Forward
AUSTIN -- It can happen in the blink of an eye and change your life forever. Dealing with the physical, emotional and financial effects...
Spinal Cord injury therapies and medical situation in China
China will probably have 1 million people with spinal cord injury in 2020 (80,000 per year). One third of the spinal cord injury people...
Big Hand For A Big Ride
A team of tetraplegics epic hand-cycle quest to the roof of the world and back is due to be completed today.
The team of cyclists,...
Spinal injury did not stop fitness passion
A fitness fanatic confined to a wheelchair "wanted to inspire people with disabilities"
A FORMER City worker from Cobham confined to a wheelchair after a...
Wheelchair user Tony Stephenson explains about his life in the aftermath of contracting TB...
Tony Stephenson became a wheelchair user at the age of 25 after contracting TB meningitis. He tells Health Correspondent Julia McWatt how he’s using...
Vic surgery hope for quadriplegics
A hasty beach dive on Australia Day last year left Jim Anderson a quadriplegic.
"I didn't do a very good shallow dive. Went in too...
Irreversible tissue loss can occur quickly after spinal cord injury
Degenerative tissue loss resulting from a spinal cord injury was shown to develop in the spinal cord and brain as early as 40 days...
Technology, trends, and the future for people with spinal cord injury
Technology is one of the most powerful tools that can be provided to people with spinal cord injuries (SCI). It is widely accepted among...
