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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Patients with traumatic spinal injuries have higher rate of insurance discontinuation

Researchers found insurance discontinuation rates were significantly higher for patients with traumatic spinal injuries when compared with healthy patient with no injuries, according to...

Loopwheels for Wheelchairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7C43kTkVQc Loopwheels: shock-absorbing suspension for wheelchairs. Extracts from filming about what people think of our loopwheels for wheelchairs. Wheelchair wheels with integral suspension, helping you...

Quadriplegic teacher helped make history

HOUSTON — After the head-on car crash, Lex Frieden thought he was OK. He’d been in the back seat, not the front, that fall night...

Learning to Walk again

Scientists at EPFL in Switzerland have designed a spinal implant which can join severed ends of the spinal cord together allowing paralysed rats to...

New technology helps mental, physical recovery

AUSABLE FORKS — Standing among the friends and family gathered at the Jan. 1 wedding of Michaela Bushey and Kyle Devins were a trio...

Robot helps quadriplegic man tour St. Louis Art Museum

ST. LOUIS • A robot rolled into the galleries of the St. Louis Art Museum on Thursday. It was tall, as tall as a man. It had a sturdy base and a thin monitor; something of an iPad on a pole with wheels. It came up the elevator, exited on the third floor, and drove past the Norman Rockwell, the Thomas Hart Benton and all those George Caleb Binghams.

‘Pushups for Paralysis’ Challenge for Those Paralyzed from Spinal Cord Injuries; Join ‘Team Fight...

LONG ISLAND, NY - For Boyd Melson, professional boxer and Captain in the US Army Reserves, being co-founder of the non-profit organization Team Fight...

Hope For Spinal Cord Regeneration

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severely disabling condition that can result in full or partial paralysis, as well as sensory and autonomic...

NIH grant will help understanding how connections rewire after spinal cord injury

Restoring function after spinal cord injury, which damages the connections that carry messages from the brain to the body and back, depends on forming...

Gym specifically for spinal cord injury clients draws from throughout Northeast Ohio

VALLEY VIEW, Ohio – The gym had several people working out. The weights were clanking up an down as arm muscles were being pumped up. There was laughter as those working out were pushing each other to continue with the weights or pieces of equipment designed to strengthen bodies.