Yearly Archives: 2017
Real-life ‘Iron Man’: Paralyzed surgeon uses standing wheelchair to perform surgeries
https://youtu.be/QKLemdYK-wM
Dr. Chris McCullough of the Morristown Medical Center uses a $20,000 dollar standing wheelchair enabling him to perform five to six surgeries a day....
What’s the Latest in Spinal Cord Injury Technology?
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) patients come to Burke’s inpatient acute rehabilitation program directly from the hospital/trauma center where they were treated and stabilized to...
Life goes on after acquired disability
ON A summer day in 1985, Bruce Stark got up, went to work and became a quadriplegic. Bruce, who is president of the Sunshine...
Making art out of life’s struggles
After becoming paralysed at the age of 22, Gilbert Tan thought his life was over. But perseverance and dedication saw him become a...
Superman to the rescue
Molly’s House awarded $10,000 for spinal cord respite care from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Molly’s House in Stuart has received a $10,000 Spinal...
Researchers Turn Skin Cells into Motor Neurons Without Using Stem Cells
Cellular Renovation
Why build something from the ground up when one can just renovate an already existing structure? Essentially, that’s what researchers from the University...
A better world for wheels on Google Maps
https://youtu.be/_LbO-lr-6lU
More than 65 million people worldwide need wheelchairs. I became one of them after an accident eight years ago, and I discovered what it’s...
Nanoparticles limit damage in spinal cord injury
Injection after an injury reduces inflammation and scarring
After a spinal cord injury, a significant amount of secondary nerve damage is caused by inflammation and...
Two Adventurers to Swap Wheelchairs for Parachutes
'Skydiving is next on my list'
Tonio Mercieca and Christine Borg will be swapping their wheelchairs for a parachute later this month as they...
Virtual Reality Is Now Helping Paralyzed Patients Walk Again
Brain Machine Interface plus Virtual Reality plus Exoskeletons, this is all that it takes to trigger the recovery of patients affected by Spinal Cord...