Monthly Archives: October 2013
Halloween Costumes for Wheelchair Users
If you're a person who uses a wheelchair, it can be a challenge trying to decide what costume to wear for an upcoming Halloween...
From Hope to How Soon? Paralympian and Gold Medalist, Victoria Arlen Sets Her Sights...
Paralympian swimmer, Victoria Arlen defies odds and comes back from a vegetative state to win gold at the 2012 London Paralympic Games. With the...
Drug may reduce chronic pain for spinal cord injuries
West Lafayette, Indiana - Researchers have discovered that a known neurotoxin may cause chronic pain in people who suffer from paralysis, and a drug...
Rehab centers adopt motion-based treatments for spinal-cord patients
Locomotor therapies re-create and repeat the pattern of walking to train the spinal cord in functions formerly controlled by the brain.
Locomotor therapies re-create and...
Does the Timing of Surgery to Treat Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Affect Outcomes?
New Rochelle, NY — Performing surgery to take pressure off the spine after a traumatic injury soon after the event could prevent or reverse...
A pacemaker in the brain for spinal cord injury?
Deep-brain stimulation, a technique used for more than a decade to manage the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, may help restore greater function and more...
Dr. John Martin awarded $3.7M for movement control studies
$3.4M from NIH for brain development and injury research; $300K from Neilsen Foundation to study recovery of movement after brain or spinal injury
The laboratory...
Muffy Davis achieves goals despite injury
When Muffy Davis was a teenager, she used to ski against Picabo Street, the two rivals dreaming of someday competing for Olympic gold.
Davis had...
Ocean City family offering athletes with spinal cord injuries a place to swim
OCEAN CITY — For some of the swimmers, like Angel Mullin, they hadn’t been in the water since before their injuries. But Bruckner Chase,...
Knocking Out Spinal Cord Injury: Neuroscientist and Professional Boxer Team Up
Rutgers' Wise Young and Army Capt. Boyd Melson fight to bring clinical trials to the United States
What would one of the world’s leading...
