Tag: Injury Prevention
Friends For Michael
The organization, which was originally founded to help Michael with immediate financial burdens, has turned into much more. We are now a non-profit 501(c)(3),...
Bladder Cancer
You may have heard it from physicians, from family members who have been doing their reading, or from spinal cord injury survivors who go...
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for more than 30% of all of their cancers. While spinal cord injury itself...
Skin: It’s too Much Pressure!
You’ve probably heard enough about skin to last a lifetime. It’s THE thing that health care professionals hammer on the most. And with good...
Switching to a Power Wheelchair
For many SCI survivors, recapturing independence is your single most significant achievement. You view any concessions to that independence  accepting more help, using...
Fight isn’t over, but polio on brink of eradication
Wiping out polio is proving tougher than expected, but world health experts say the disease's demise is tantalizingly near.
In 1988, there were 350,000 cases....
Unsupervised Trampoline Use Contributes to Jump in Children’s Injuries
Orthopaedic Surgeons Offer Tips to Avoid Trampoline Dangers
ROSEMONT, Ill., June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Trampolines are now rivaling swing sets and sandboxes as the staple...
Event raises awareness about spinal cord injuries
It was just as the race master yelled "go!" over the loudspeaker that a looming grey cloud opened up and dumped a torrent of...
Spinal Cord Injury Treatment and Cure Research
When someone sustains a spinal cord injury (SCI), one of the most difficult issues to deal with is that there is no "cure" at...
Prevention
A sixteen year old was the front seat passenger with her young, inexperienced boyfriend John at the wheel. They were on their way home...
