Tag: Quadriplegia
Nosing Your Way Around
Reasearchers in Israel have developed an electronic controller that allows severely disabled people to control their wheelchairs or computers with a simple sniff of...
Spinal Cord Injuries Create Long Term Health Issues
Major accidents usually result in severe injuries sustained by one or more persons. Among these injuries, however, injuries to the spine is the worst...
Nina Foundation Celebrated 2nd Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day
This is an event celebrated by a mumbai based NGO -Nina Foundation to spread awareness about spinal injury - prevention & Rehabilitation.
25th June 2010,...
University of Louisville, Kentucky centers develop treatments, create hope for spinal cord injuries
A bullet remains lodged in Michelle Alexander's spinal cord nearly six years after her husband shot her four times — instantly paralyzing her —...
Power Soccer
Power Soccer is the first competitive team sport designed and developed specifically for power wheelchair users.
City to host Ms. Wheelchair America pageant this weekend
A diverse group of women from 27 states -- college students, volunteers, office workers, grandmothers -- will gather in Rapid City this week to...
Paralysis is a Catastrophic Injury
For an injury to be considered catastrophic, it must occur without any warning. It must also disrupt your life is some way, whether by...
Adventure Therapy
A LIFELONG STRUGGLE: People who have suffered spinal cord injuries are at higher risk for obesity than those who haven't. Because they're often confined...
Stationary bike helps spinal cord injury sufferers
People who have suffered spinal cord injuries are at higher risk for obesity than those who haven't.
Because they're often confined to a wheelchair, the...
Paralysis from injury doesn’t hamper Lantzy
ST. BENEDICT - Ken Lantzy believes in making the best of situations and follows his own advice.
When a high school football injury caused permanent...
