Friday, March 29, 2024

Tag: Functional Electrical Stimulation

Adventure Therapy

A LIFELONG STRUGGLE: People who have suffered spinal cord injuries are at higher risk for obesity than those who haven't. Because they're often confined...

South Florida doctors look to speed up stem cell research

As President Barack Obama eased restrictions on embryonic stem cell research Monday, South Florida scientists said they will pursue the controversial research in their...

Bringing Purpose to All Forms of Human Life: Thoughts on Stem Cell Research

Matthew Sanford writes: My wife Jennifer and I have a nine-year-old son named Paul. We are both his biological and everyday parents....

Georgia colleges embrace Obama’s stem cell decision

For eight years, scientists have taken extreme measures to continue researching how embryonic stem cells could treat illness and injury. With limits on federal money...

Freshman takes spinal cord injury in stride

Brooke Rallis came to the University of New Hampshire in high hopes of being considered an equal among the thousands of freshmen. Standing at 5...

Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009

In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first human trials of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. The...

POWER celebrates ten years of helping others

For some people a disability can be devastating and for others it becomes a challenge, but with the help of People on Wheels Encouraging...

Tackling spinal cord injuries

Dr. Ragnarsson is a physiatrist (specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation) and professor and chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai....

Molecules Self-assemble To Provide New Therapeutic Treatments

ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2009) — Researchers in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University have an interesting approach for tackling some major...

Degree of difficulty

Three years ago, when the family appeared publicly for the first time since Tyson Gentry’s spinal cord injury, Bob Gentry said something that has...