Yearly Archives: 2014
IndyCar owner Sam Schmidt chosen to unveil innovative hand, foot-free Corvette
HENDERSON, Nev. – A 1999 IndyCar sits inside Sam Schmidt’s Las Vegas-area home. One day, Schmidt, who is a quadriplegic, hopes to drive it...
A world running for a chance to walk again
CU alum returns to Colorado to race for a cure for spinal cord injuries
University of Colorado graduate Thomas Cloyd has gone through painstaking changes...
EPS officer beating the odds, 13 years after becoming quadriplegic
“I was told by the doctors, you broke your neck, you’ll never walk again,” Acting Detective Bryce Clarke said. “You’ll never work again; you...
Studies identify spinal cord neurons that control skilled limb movement
NEW YORK, NY (May 1, 2014) —Researchers have identified two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement. The...
Spinal Cord Injury: Promising Research to Restore Hand Function at UCLA
Daniel Lu, MD, and Reggie Edgerton, MD, recently received a five-year grant to explore new therapies for patients with spinal cord injuries from the...
InVivo Therapeutics Initiates First Clinical Trial of Neuro-Spinal Scaffold
Scaffold Designed to Facilitate Neural Growth in Spinal Cord Injury
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2014-- InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) announced today that it has...
Paraplegic man proves ‘anything is possible’
SALT LAKE CITY — While in his mid-20s, Dustin Shillcox learned that he would never walk again.
A car accident in August 2010 left him...
Coming to terms with a life sentence
In 1995, 20-year-old Travis Roy was making his debut for the Boston College ice hockey team when 11 seconds into his collegiate career he...
A Cure for Spinal Cord Injury? Mark Pollock and Superman’s Legacy
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Adventurer Mark Pollock joined us to explore the frontier research that is pointing towards a cure for spinal cord injury.
For this special event,...
‘Unproven treatment of spinal injuries can cause paralysis’
The rampant unauthorised and unproven stem cell transplant for spinal cord injury can leave a person paralysed below the level of injury, health experts...
