Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: Paralyzed Veterans

Magnet Device Aids in Spinal Cord Injury

Precisely timed nerve stimulation in patients with spinal cord injuries improved their ability to use their hands, at least temporarily, researchers reported. The non-invasive process...

Spinal Injury Incidence About 5 Percent in Iraq/Afghanistan

The incidence of spinal trauma sustained by military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan is about 5 percent, according to a study published in the...

Latest Breakthroughs and Treatments in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Bring Top Clinicians and Researchers...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The best and the brightest minds in spinal cord injury medicine will convene this week for Paralyzed Veterans...

More Injured Veterans Seek Rehabilitation Through Sports, Compete in London Paralympics

The international multi-sport competition for athletes with disabilities hits London on August 29. On a September day in Afghanistan last year, Lt. Brad Snyder...

Disabled vets get hot wheels despite their wheelchairs

Left a paraplegic by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan two years ago, retired Marine Jack Pierce vows not to let his disability leave him...

April is Paralyzed Veterans of America Awareness Month

Paralyzed Veterans’ National President will Travel around the Country to Raise Awareness for Veterans with Disabilities Paralyzed Veterans of America is marking the 66th anniversary...

April is PVA Awareness Month

Changing Lives, Building Futures A Time to Honor America's Veterans with Disabilities and Their Families WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed...

More powerful roadside bombs lead to increase in spinal injuries among troops

LANDSTUHL, Germany - Stronger armored vehicles are preventing more servicemembers in Afghanistan from being killed by roadside bombs. But the bombs are still powerful...

Wheelchair games coming to Downtown, Oakland

Tom Strang is proud of his guns. Not just the long-barreled sort he fires in air gun competitions around the country. There are the others,...

Sister helps her disabled veteran brother

When she was a little girl, Emerald Ralston eagerly waited at the window with binoculars pressed to her eyes, looking for her brother to...