Yearly Archives: 2016
Cure for spinal cord injuries nose ahead with nasal cell transplants
QUEENSLAND researchers are a step closer to human trials of a potential treatment for spinal cord injuries involving transplants of nasal cells combined with...
How SoCal Doctors Used Basketball to Rehabilitate Paralyzed Vets
The popular wheelchair sport helped to launch the Paralympics in 1960
Jerry Fesenmeyer was an 18-year-old Iowa farm boy when he and his fellow marines...
Surgery that restores hand and elbow function in quadriplegics is underused
MAYWOOD, IL - A surgery for quadriplegics called tendon transfer can significantly improve hand and elbow function, but the procedure is greatly underused, according...
Study says stem cell treatment can aid recovery of spinal injuries
Stem Cell treatment or the Human Embryonic Stem Cells (HESC) is effective in the replacement of damaged neurons, re-establishment of lost axonal connections, and...
Monitoring upper-limb recovery after cervical spinal cord injury: insights beyond assessment scores.
Background: Pre-clinical investigations in animal models demonstrate that enhanced upper-limb (UL) activity during rehabilitation promotes motor recovery following spinal cord injury (SCI). Despite this,...
Mason Ellis – Explaining Tenodesis
https://youtu.be/V5KJFmX2300
This is a video of Mason Ellis explaining Tenodesis (movement of the wrist to move fingers). Mason is a C5, C6, C7 Complete Quadriplegic...
Quadriplegic Israeli Inventor Designs Device That Allows Him to Stand
Nearly everyone knows about ReWalk, the revolutionary robotic exoskeleton invented in Israel that allows paraplegics to stand, walk, and even navigate steps and run...
Utah’s longest-living quadriplegic who never stops moving
SALT LAKE CITY — Becky Reeve was going to be the world’s greatest missionary and then the world’s greatest mother — until a car...
Using VR and an exoskeletons to help paraplegics regain movement
After twelve months, eight patients and 2,052 sessions spread over 1,958 hours, Duke University is publishing some promising results from a study seeking to...
Gene Behind Long Body Of Snake May Help Patients With Spinal Injuries
Snakes owe their long and slithery bodies to "junk DNA," large chunks of the reptile's genome that scientists once thought to be useless. The...
