Tag: Quality Of Life

Improving Recovery from Spinal Cord Injuries: New $3.7 Million Grant Will Create Comprehensive Rehabilitation...

Georgetown To House One of Only Six Similar NIH-Funded Programs in the Country March 6, 2006, Washington, DC — Each year, nearly 11,000 Americans suffer...

Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation

The Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation helps individuals overcome spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders by funding scientific research, medical treatment, rehabilitation and technological...

Girl’s family pursues treatments

DETROIT - Laura Jackson doesn't want to wait for a cure. Paralyzed in May 2003 while performing a backward flip in a cheerleading stunt, Laura,...

Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center (PRC)

The Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center (PRC), a program of the Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF), was created in 2002 to provide a comprehensive,...

Christopher Reeve Foundation

The Christopher Reeve Foundation is committed to finding treatments and cures for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other neurological disorders, and...

Christopher Reeve Foundation Commemorates First Anniversary Of Christopher Reeve’s Passing

Foundation to “Go Forward”; Vows to honor legacy and fulfill vision of former Chairman SHORT HILLS, N.J. – October 10, 2005 – In commemoration of...

Hurricane Katrina – Response/Recovery, message from NCD

Basic Info People with disabilities in the Gulf Coast areas of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana are experiencing tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by...

National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month

More than 240,000 Americans, including 44,000 veterans, currently suffer from a spinal cord injury (SCI). Eleven thousand more sustain these injuries every year. The...

Switching to a Power Wheelchair

For many SCI survivors, recapturing independence is your single most significant achievement. You view any concessions to that independence ­ accepting more help, using...

HELPING HANDS

HELPING HANDS is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for quadriplegic individuals by training capuchin monkeys to assist them with...