Tag: Paralysis

Combination Strategy Promotes Better Recovery of Walking

Investigators at The Miami Project have designed a new triple combination strategy that opens up new possibilities in the search for successful treatments for...

Post-doctoral fellow to study spinal cord interneurons with Reeve grant

The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation has awarded Steven Crone, a post-doctoral fellow in Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Physiology, a two-year grant of $120,000 to conduct...

Don’t bet against him

MT. VERNON — Had he been able, he would have leaped out of his bed, fists raised. If his legs had responded, if his...

Christopher Reeve to speak at FirstEnergy Park

LAKEWOOD, N.J. – The Lakewood BlueClaws and Eric Taylor’s Empowerment Group are pleased to announce that Christopher Reeve will headline Empower New Jersey 2004,...

I’m going to walk again

16-year-old who woke up paralyzed hasn't lost his will or his faith Zack Murphy got a necktie not long before Father's Day this year, an...

Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Supports Brain-Computer Interface Breakthrough

SPRINGFIELD, N.J., July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The July 9, 2004 edition of Science reports on an exciting study, "Cognitive Control Signals for Neural...

Eye for excellence

Decatur man 2nd in national archery contest A second-place finish in a national archery competition would be enough to make most people brag. But not for...

Robot aids the spinal-cord injured

Lokomat helps people with paralysed legs simulate walking movements In an attempt to get the brain to signal the body to walk again, doctors are...

Lawmakers in U.S. House Propose to Expand Stem-Cell Funding

June 23 (Bloomberg) -- A Republican and a Democrat in the U.S. House introduced a measure that would lift President George W. Bush's limits...

Miracle-Man Pat Rummerfield to challenge Irwindale’s oval

IRWINDALE, Calif. -- Paralyzed from the neck down in a horrendous 135-mile per hour car accident, and all but given up for a life...