Monthly Archives: May 2016
Pants Up Easy
Pants Up Easy... is designed to help wheelchair users and people with spinal-cord injuries get dressed.
If you’re paraplegic, odds are you spend hours a...
Improving cell transplantation after spinal cord injury: When, where and how?
Spinal cord injuries are mostly caused by trauma, often incurred in road traffic or sporting incidents, often with devastating and irreversible consequences, and unfortunately...
Misfortune won’t get the better of quadriplegic filmmaker Paddy Slattery
In the 20 years since a car crash left him quadriplegic, filmmaker Paddy Slattery has found nothing but opportunity, inspiration and happiness
Paddy Slattery remembers...
SpinalRoots.net
I broke my back in an accident, in 1996, which left me as a paraplegic wheelchair user. I went through a conventional rehabilitation process...
Disability Motorcycle Aids
Helping those with issues that make it difficult to ride their motorcycles, Using twin dual hand brakes and electronic shifters, modified foot controls, wheelchair...
InCube Labs Announces $10 Million Department of Defense (DoD) Subcontract
Company will Collaborate with The University of Pittsburgh to Develop an Implantable Device for Spinal Cord Injury Patients
SAN ANTONIO, May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/...
Watch a Driver With Quadriplegia Hit 152 MPH at the Indianapolis 500
https://youtu.be/XCm1zCkSHEo
The technology has "promising humanitarian applications off the track."
Sam Schmidt wasn’t one of the official drivers at yesterday’s 100th Indianapolis 500, but his speed...
Control a computer with your tongue
New device would let severely paralyzed people surf the Web
PHOENIX, Ariz. — A new tongue-controlled computer mouse would allow someone with no working arms...
Experimental procedure aimed at repairing spinal cord shows promise
An experimental procedure aimed at repairing spinal cord injuries is showing promise. It uses stem cells in the damaged areas in hopes of restoring...
Costco Auto Program Announces New Mobility Vehicle Offerings for Costco Members
Costco Auto Program today announced an exclusive partnership with BraunAbility, the world’s leading manufacturer of wheelchair accessible vehicles. Costco members in eight select markets...