Tag: neuroplasticity
Can nanotechnology rewire an injured spinal cord?
According to the World Health Organisation, up to a half-million people around the world suffer a spinal cord injury each year. Often caused by...
One Small Step for a Paraplegic, One Big Step Toward Reversing Paralysis
In a hospital in Switzerland, permanently paralyzed people are now learning to walk again with the help of stimulating electrodes implanted in their spines....
Experimental implant shows promise for restoring voluntary movement after spinal cord injury
UCLA scientists test electrical stimulation that bypasses injury; technique boosts patient’s finger control, grip strength up to 300 percent
A spinal stimulator being tested by...
Improving Life for People With Spinal Cord Injuries
“We are trying to improve someone’s quality of life. If someone can breathe without a ventilator, then you’ve increased their independence, and that, to...
Soon-to-be doctor behind new spinal cord research six years after becoming quadriplegic
MOST doctors study for years so they can help others but for Southport’s Dinesh Palipana, it is much more Âpersonal.
A month out from his...
Janine Shepherd overcame a horrific spinal cord injury – now she wants to help...
JANINE Shepherd should have died 28 years ago.
Her body was broken and paralysed from the waist down. Doctors told her parents to prepare for...
