Tag: Functional Electrical Stimulation
Spinal injury patient shows improvement
Chandigarh, March 28: A spinal cord injury victim who was a subject of stem cell experimentation at PGI has shown tremendous progress, doctors said...
An Oregon Tale
RECENTLY MY OLDEST son, Noah, graduated from the University of Oregon. He wore the traditional cap with tassel as a concession to his mother’s...
Research Promises New Wound-Healing Materials
Newswise — Researchers are developing scaffoldlike materials designed to be injected into the body where they will quickly solidify to fit any space, repairing...
Persistence paid off for paralyzed dad
In the weeks following the car accident that left him paralyzed below the waist, Geoff Luther was haunted by worries that he'd lost the...
Atorvastatin shows potential as a new treatment for spinal cord injuries
A multidisciplinary investigation led by Inderjit Singh, Ph.D, of the Medical University of South Carolina, has resulted in a new treatment of spinal cord...
Research Suggests New Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries
CHARLESTON, S.C., March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A multidisciplinary investigation led by Inderjit Singh, Ph.D, of the Medical University of South Carolina, has resulted in...
Theatrical group fosters public awareness on disabilities
Close your eyes and enter a room, you hear a director yell out to a cast, “Move stage left, move forward, 5, 6, 7,8…!”...
Elderly spinal cord injuries increase 5-fold in 30 years
PHILADELPHIA— The number of spinal cord injuries among senior citizens (age 70 and above) has increased five times in the past 30 years, as...
Some Right-to-Life groups support stem-cell bill
Conservative and right-to-life groups contacted Wednesday embrace the advancement of a bill in the state House to establish a public bank of umbilical cord...
‘Some people don’t do a thimbleful of what he did in life’
Lawrence "Larry" Solomon was a can-do guy.
He was an all-American gymnast on his East Coast high school and college teams.
An accident during practice at...
