Tag: Functional Electrical Stimulation

Designers roll out their latest lines: Chic wheelchairs

If you can't stand up, stand out. That has been Marilyn Hamilton's motto ever since she was paralyzed from the waist down in a hang-gliding...

Human Stem Cell Transplants Repair Rat Spinal Cords

Science Daily — Human nerve stem cells transplanted into rats' damaged spinal cords have survived, grown and in some cases connected with the rats'...

Local Surfing Community Supports UC San Diego’s Spinal Cord Regeneration Research

Newswise — With unsteady hands, San Diego resident and surfing enthusiast, Tony Mezzadri handed over an oversized check in the amount of $17,000 to...

GRAViTONUS Gaming System For Quadriplegics

Any person with physical disabilities is entitled to active interaction with all aspects of social life, independent personal life, self-determination, freedom of choice, as...

Stem-Cell Refugees

Yanks are flocking to China for therapy August, 2002. Chuck Melton, a burly 24-year-old factory worker, is living a good life in southern Illinois. He...

Robotic Exoskeleton Replaces Muscle Work

Science Daily — A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for...

‘Exciting times’ for spinal cord research

Thank you Prime Minister Stephen Harper! Thank you Rick Hansen! Thank you Tony Clement and Steven Fletcher! Thank you, thank you and thank you....

New hope for spinal cord injury patients

ISLAMABAD: Tiny nerves taken from the rib cage, fortified with a powerful growth inducer and transplanted in the spinal cord significantly reversed paralysis in...

Basile’s Hands-On Approach

Relaunched Web site for Determined2heal offers a wealth of advice to those with spinal injuries, and the Potomac man behind it is thinking big. Two...

Australian Scientists Developing Spinal Cord Implant

Sydney, Australia (AHN) - The creator of the bionic ear is working on an idea involving a spinal cord implant that would be a...