Tag: Paralysis
The Real Truth about Stem Cells
Spinal Cord Injuries affect millions of individuals worldwide. The cost to the patient, family, and society is enormous both from a financial and emotional...
Tragedy Creates New Event to Benefit Non-Profit
The family of 16-year-old amateur motocross racer, Ricky James, has decided to hold a fundraising golf tournament with the Next Steps Foundation in an...
Electrical exercise system gives paralysis sufferers power to recover strength
People affected by paralysis could enjoy more independence, better health and a higher quality of life thanks to an innovative system designed to improve...
Murderball – About the Movie
ABOUT THE FILM
Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than-life personalities, MURDERBALL, winner of the Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for Editing...
MacLaren’s ‘gift’: Persevering through paralysis
To bathe the inspirational Jim MacLaren entirely in sunlight would be to deny his journey out of the darkness.
If life was indeed fair to...
MURDERBALL is in a theater near you this weekend!
MURDERBALL, the Audience Award winner for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, opened July 8th in New York and Los Angeles, and will...
How surgeons rebuilt shattered spine
Matthew Hunt will walk again thanks to the skill of a Norfolk surgical team. Health Correspondent MARK NICHOLLS looks at how they re-built...
Crespi graduate overcomes injury through perseverance, exercise therapy
Mike McNamara's light blue-green eyes fairly glisten as he talks about walking on the USC campus this fall as a college freshman. Only two-and-a-half...
Teens with spinal cord injuries
Seventeen-year-old Van Brooks felt somewhat out of place talking to adults with spinal cord injuries after his own paralyzing accident last fall. Sure, the...
Purdue Scientists May Have Found Key to Halting Spinal Cord Damage
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers may have isolated the substance most responsible for the tissue damage that follows...
