Tag: Paraplegia
Cutting the Fat
Eating is one of the more enjoyable things life has to offer. That’s why what to eat and what not to eat – especially...
Incomplete SCIs: Down the Road
This is the second of two brochures about incomplete spinal cord injuries. The first, Incomplete SCIs: The Early Days, discusses some of the issues...
Spirituality
Because spinal cord injury can be a life changing event, your whole way of life - including your spirituality -- is challenged. You may...
You Are How You Feel
One of the first questions out of your doctor's mouth is often something like, "How are you feeling?" More than just a conversation starter,...
New Therapy for Paraplegia and Quadriplegia
GIGER MD® Therapy is a unique therapy method
The damaged or functionally impaired CNS (Central Nervous System) is functionally reorganised in its activated network parts...
Cutting-Edge Surgeries
When I directed PVA’s Spinal Cord Research Foundation a decade ago, function-restoring interventions for spinal cord injury (SCI) were rare and usually off the...
Spinal Cord Injury Treatment and Cure Research
When someone sustains a spinal cord injury (SCI), one of the most difficult issues to deal with is that there is no "cure" at...
SCI Rehabilitation
It is very important to be confident about the quality of care you or a loved one will receive when entering a Rehabilitation program....
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness – Understanding the Importance of Language and Images
Every day more than 30 people become paralyzed from spinal cord injury (SCI) or disease. SCI generally results in one of two types of...
Common Questions about Spinal Cord Injury
1. What is Spinal Cord Injury?
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as...
