Tag: Health Care
Will Spinal Cord Injuries Fall Through the Cracks in Haiti?
Haiti Needs Spine-Specific Medical Aid, Doctors Say
Medical professionals are concerned that one class of injury -- spinal cord trauma -- may not be getting...
Prevention of pressure ulcers
Experts all agree that it is far easier to prevent bed sore than to treat them. However, easier does not necessarily mean easy. With...
What are the treatment options for pressure ulcers?
Treating pressure ulcers is not easy. If it is an open wound it most likely will not heal rapidly; even when healing does take...
What are the signs and symptoms of pressure ulcers?
A symptom is something the patient feels and reports, while a sign is something other people, such as the doctor detect. For example, pain...
What Are Bed Sores (pressure Ulcers)?
Bed sores, also known as pressure ulcers, pressure sores or decubitus ulcers are skin lesions which can be caused by friction, humidity, temperature, continence,...
VA to break ground on $90M spinal cord injury center
Syracuse, N.Y. -- The Syracuse VA Medical Center will break ground Friday on its long-awaited six-story Spinal Cord Injury/Disease Center.
The facility will serve veterans...
Kids grant small wishes for paralyzed veterans in Palo Alto
After four years in the same bed at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Tom Parks said he welcomes a break from the...
UR Medical Center chief recounts spring bicycle accident
Riding his bicycle on a hilltop near his Canandaigua home May 30, Dr. Bradford Berk didn't see any cars coming along the narrow North...
New Academy to Improve Health Care for the Spinal Cord Injured Supported by Paralyzed...
DALLAS, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new interdisciplinary force for quality health care for people living with spinal cord injury/dysfunction (SCI/D), the Academy of...
Regaining independence after being paralyzed at 17
On March 13, 1991, while preparing for a motorcycle race competition, my bike collided with a rock and my life changed forever. I was...
