Tag: Spasticity
A surgeon’s struggle to regain his life and career
Accident paralyzed his body but not the love for his work
Sweat soaked his Aggie baseball cap as Eugene Alford lurched upright over the parallel...
Acorda Therapeutics CEO Inducted into Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame
HAWTHORNE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.® (Nasdaq:ACOR) today announced that Ron Cohen, M.D., its President and CEO, has been inducted into the SCI Hall of...
Ayurvedic Home Remedies for Paralysis
Types of Paralysis
Paraplegia:
It occurs usually due to injury or disease of spinal cord and occurs in both the legs. It is generally accompanied by...
Human stem cell treatment restores motor function in paralyzed rats
Rats paralyzed due to loss of blood flow to the spine returned to near normal ambulatory function six weeks after receiving grafts of human...
Fighting spasticity
Doctors increasingly implant pumps, inject Botox to relieve muscle spasms
Spokane Physiatrist Dr. Karen Stanek says a fast-growing number of people here are using...
Marijuana Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury Studied
THC reduces Spasticity in patients with spinal cord injury
IACM via BBSNews 2006-10-29 -- According to an open label clinical study conducted at the REHAB...
Mount Sinai
The Mount Sinai Spinal Cord Injury Model System (MS-SCI-MS) provides comprehensive care to meet the diverse needs of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI)....
EJACULATION, ORGASM, AND COITUS
Ejaculation is a Motor function which cannot take place if the particular nerves and parts of the spinal cord...
HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION (HO)/CYST
Heterotopic Ossification (HO) is the development of abnormal bone in soft (non-skeletal) tissue, primarily in the region of the...
PAIN
TYPES OF PAIN
In general, there are four categories of pain that occurs as a complication of SCI: central, muscle...
