Tag: Hope
Paralysed teenager has ‘very good chance of recovery’
Aspiring model Vladislava Kravchenko has a very good chance of recovery form her paralysis, according to doctors in Moscow, where she has now begun...
Stem cell compromise better than nothing
Like everyone else in science, I have deep respect for the Nobel Prize. Yet I most often refer to this summit of recognition for...
Salamanders – What Can They Teach us About Spinal Cord Injury?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For more than 400 years, scientists have studied the amazing regenerative power of salamanders, trying to understand how these...
Ed Quijada – chat with new patients
Ed Quijada - as part of this series, Ed and Amy chat with new patients suffering a spinal cord injury
Quadriplegic delivers message: ‘There’s hope’
The car accident that damaged Patrick Rummerfield's spinal cord in 1974 should have laid him up permanently.
So why does he now drive drag racers...
Struggling for Bliss: Greece man’s long road to recovery
Mike Bliss' story can be told in four words:
Believe. Persevere. Thank you.
On March 22, 2008, Bliss, a 21-year-old junior accounting major at the State...
Pushing the Brain to Find New Pathways
Until recently, scientists believed that, following a stroke, a patient had about six months to regain any lost function. After that, patients would be...
Dachshund Get’s Paralysis Treatment and Walks Again!
Spinal cord injury patients around the world may draw new hope for the future from the story of a paralyzed little dog who was...
University of Louisville neuroscientists hope to get people walking again
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Neuroscience researchers at the University of Louisville will be the only team collaborating with an international group of scientists who last...
Brent Adams: Therapy, friends give him hope of walking again
When Brent Adams overshot a jump on a dirt bike in December 2007, he ended up with severe injuries that left him paralyzed from...
