Tag: Hope
Spinal Cord Injury Levels & Classification
When people are injured, they are often told that they have an injury at a given spinal cord level and are given a qualifier...
Treatment
Fifty years ago, a spinal cord injury was usually fatal. Today, there's still no way to reverse damage to the spinal cord. But advances...
Coping skills
An accident that results in paralysis is a life-changing event, whether you've lost movement in your legs and lower body or all four extremities....
What are Schwann Cells?
Description of Schwann Cells provided by Inner Learning Online. Larger axons passing through Peripheral nerves commonly are enclosed in sheaths called "Schwann cells."...
Race to Human Stem-Cell Trials
SAN DIEGO -- Several scientists have used embryonic or fetal stem cells to help rodents with spinal cord injuries walk again. The researchers travel...
Ford hits milestone in his recovery
Milwaukee Bucks point guard T.J. Ford shot baskets with his doctor's permission Saturday for the first time since bruising his spinal cord almost 14...
New Shriners hospital to be built in St. Louis
The Board of Trustees of Shriners Hospitals for Children recently announced that it has approved the construction of a new hospital to replace the...
Allie is back up and running, make that wheeling, around
STATE CENTER - By anyone's measure, Marshall County Deputy and D.A.R.E. Officer Steve Sodders is a hero simply by the very nature of his...
Work on wheels: Disproving the myths of disability
As a Physical Therapy student in the 1970s, Thomas Holtackers learned to help individuals overcome injuries that interfered with their daily functioning.
Now a Physical...
Dole Discloses Emergency That Nearly Took His Life
Former Senator Bob Dole, whose life was shaped by a devastating war injury, suffered a medical emergency earlier this year that doctors told him...
