Tag: Paralysis

Stem Cell Bill Reintroduced

ACTION ALERT: Stem Cell Bill Reintroduced – Tell Your Members of Congress to Cosponsor the Bill! Good news — the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act...

Teresa Hukari makes painstaking progress

The year 2006 was a life-altering one for Teresa Hukari, a Hood River native who was injured last March in a freak skiing accident...

Use your mind, keep body safe

Paralyzed former race car driver takes advice about spinal cord injuries to students in South Florida high schools. The high-tech, mechanized wheelchair caught their attention....

Drew’s Life After paralysis

The Donnellans had their annual Christmas party one week ago. They served the same jerk chicken with rice and peas, made by a friend of...

Risk vs. hope: Heading overseas for stem cells

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - David Aldrich, 49, was paralyzed in a boating accident more than four years ago, and had made his wishes known....

Chedoke chaplain has Olympic dreams

People often misuse the word accident to describe an injury, says Adrian Dieleman, a chaplain for Chedoke's Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program. "These things are...

Out of harm’s way

Teens learned a vital lesson during Spinal Cord Inury Awareness Week. The idea was to educate teens about the dangers of accidents that can...

The Nieshoff System

Quadriplegic doctor treats patients with empathy at Novi rehab institute Life for James Rudolph of Howell changed in a flash when a motorcycle crash in...

Thanks, Superman! Paralyzed 3-Year-Old Learns to Walk Again

A 3-year-old paralyzed Kentucky boy learned to walk again after trying a therapy that was financed by the Christopher Reeve Foundation's Neuro-Recovery Network. The image...

Rugby injury research project

Cape Town - The Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, in collaboration with the Chris Burger/Petro Jackson Players' Fund, has launched a...