Tag: Equipment
Kelly Brush Foundation Awards Ski Racing Safety Grants
BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just as ski resorts are opening for the season, the Kelly Brush Foundation kicked off its 2008/2009 Ski...
Paralysis research requires a barrel of monkeys
At the Miller Laboratory of Limb Motor Control, "monkey business" is a misnomer.
The lab, located at the Feinberg School of Medicine, is hoping to...
Creative physical therapy improves lives of people with paralysis
Every 41 minutes someone sustains a spinal cord injury. Almost half of these injuries are due to Motor vehicle crashes, followed by the next...
New UAB lab helps spinal cord patients cope
A new lab at UAB's Spain Rehabilitation Center offers spinal cord injury patients a look at how technology can help them overcome disabilities, particularly...
Nerve repair, biodetectors, proton therapy, microscopic medical devices
Biomedical research highlights of AVS 55th International Symposium & Exhibition in Boston, Oct. 19-24
1) CELL "PRINTING" PAVES WAY TO ARTIFICIAL ORGANS
Despite the success of...
Improving schools’ support for children with spinal cord injury
This research study was carried out by the Thomas Coram Research Unit, the Institute of Education at the University of London between January and...
Injured hockey player fighting his way back
Ben Stear struggles to hold his cell phone in his hands; his fingers just won't cooperate.
Dialing a number, text messaging and listening to his...
Paralysed woman’s abseil appeal
A PARALYSED Warminster woman is appealing for people abseil 70ft down a medieval castle for charity.
Victoria Holton was paralysed in a parachuting accident in...
Stationary Wheelchair Exerciser
Trekease Wheelchair Exerciser Prototype 5 Plastic Composite frame donated to San Antonio Veterans Hospital Spinal Cord Injury Recreation Room.
Homes for Our Troops to build house for paralyzed Marine
Marine Joshua Hoffman was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Iraq in January 2007. At left is his mother, Reed City resident Hazel Hoffman,...
