Tag: Physical Therapy
Church helps injured teen on long road to recovery
Gabe Rodreick, who suffered a spinal injury in Costa Rica, hopes to get back to a top rehab center.
Gabe Rodreick of south Minneapolis was...
Local doctor recovers from spinal cord injury
For decades, he treated patients in the Roanoke Valley as an orthopedic surgeon, but a bicycle accident flipped the script. In an instant,...
3 with local ties inducted
Dr. James S. Krause, Harriet McBryde Johnson and Marc Buoniconti
Three of this year's 19 inductees into the Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame have...
Creative physical therapy improves lives of people with paralysis
Every 41 minutes someone sustains a spinal cord injury. Almost half of these injuries are due to Motor vehicle crashes, followed by the next...
‘Never Ever Boy’ from Quincy proving doctors wrong
Quincy native Trevor Akers is called a "Never Ever Boy" at a Physical Therapy clinic in Fayetteville, Ga.
That's because after a motorcycle accident in...
Races help local spinal cord research
More than 200 people heard about work with adult stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease and innovative Physical Therapy to restore function and feeling...
Paralysis Therapy
NEW YORK (CBS) - It was four years ago this week that Christopher Reeve passed away after a long and valiant battle with...
Grand Lake teen readjusts to life at home after nearly fatal car accident
As he was growing up in Grand Lake, everybody knew Zack Peterson as the kid with the big smile and the tousled blond hair...
Breakthrough Could Help Heal Spinal Cord Injuries Without Pain
AURORA, Colo., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine say manipulating embryo-derived stem cell precursors prior...
Sole Use Of Impaired Limb Improves Recovery In Spinal Cord Injury
ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2008) — A new study finds that following minor spinal cord injury, rats that had to use impaired limbs showed full...
