Tag: Hope

“I jumped off the back of a boat, my chin hit the water in a weird way, and I dislocated my spine, the C4 and C5. The instant I hit the water my body just stopped working. I was looking face down at the bottom of the lake and I just couldn’t move.“

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severely disabling condition that can result in full or partial paralysis, as well as sensory and autonomic...

Modern science can offer a lot of things, but the search for a miracle cure to spinal cord injury is dangerous on many levels. It's...

VICTORIAN medical researchers are embarking on a range of exciting trials to improve the lives of people with quadriplegia and prevent the severity of...

PARIS - Imagine a future with no sporting events for paralysed people. A future in which there is no need, as all the would-be...

The last thing Christa Sexton remembers is the fire truck careening toward her. When she woke up, face down on the warm highway asphalt, life...

There are moments in time that can forever alter your life. Evan Cronhardt’s life changed its course on April 10, 2008 as he was...

New Brunswick, NJ – Walking is the obvious goal for individuals who have a chronic spinal cord injury, but it is not the only...

Researchers deploy "sonic hedgehog" to help repair damage EAST GREENBUSH — Researchers in the Capital Region have created microscopic beads that may help heal spinal...

Until the last few decades, it was generally thought that damage to the spinal cord was permanent, as the nerves within our vertebrae stubbornly...