Tag: Paralysis

Cyberkinetics’ Andara™ OFS™ Therapy Featured in Presentations at the AANS/CNS Meeting

Researchers report that people with spinal cord injuries treated with Cyberkinetics’ Andara™ OFS™ System showed significantly greater neurological improvement than those in a separate...

Pressing On – San Antonio, TX

Pressing On is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization which provides a specialized exercise-based training program for those living with paralysis and other physical...

British scientists developing spinal injury treatment

LONDON, (Xinhua) -- British scientists are developing a treatment which could allow damaged nerve fibers to regenerate within the spinal cord. ...

Spinal injury regeneration hope

Scientists believe they are close to a significant breakthrough in the treatment of spinal injuries. The University of Cambridge team is developing a treatment which...

New hope on spinal injury

SCIENTISTS are on the brink of a major potential breakthrough in the repair of spinal cord injuries. Action Medical Research, a national charity, has said...

Qualcomm event has seen death, paralysis

Tonight, top motorcycle riders from across the country will be leaping over and powering through a demanding obstacle course on the floor of Qualcomm...

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Awards Nearly $2 Million in Individual Research Grants

Foundation Continues Research Initiatives in Search of a Cure and Therapies for Paralysis SHORT HILLS, N.J., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Christopher and Dana Reeve...

After Spinal Cord Injury, Ohio State Program Gives Hope

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An innovative training device being used at The Ohio State University Medical Center may lead to improved mobility and quality of...

Determined to Recover

Every once in a while, a story reaches out and inexplicably grabs a hold of you. I was surfing the 2008 mountain bike models...

Medical Marvel

Doctors can't explain why Pat Rummerfield is able to run marathons and race cars. Even so, there are scores of quadriplegics who long to...