Tag: Spasticity
Spinal Cord Injury Levels & Classification
When people are injured, they are often told that they have an injury at a given spinal cord level and are given a qualifier...
Treatment
Fifty years ago, a spinal cord injury was usually fatal. Today, there's still no way to reverse damage to the spinal cord. But advances...
AANS Applauds Institute of Medicine’s Spinal Cord Injury Report
Newswise — According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), as many as 250,000 people are living in the United States with spinal...
New Avenues of Research Open for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
Concerted National Effort Needed To Develop New Therapies
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Recent discoveries about the Central Nervous System's capacity for Regeneration and repair...
Acorda Therapeutics Launches ZANAFLEX CAPSULES for the Management of Spasticity in People with MS...
HAWTHORNE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)Acorda Therapeutics(R) announced today that it has launched ZANAFLEX(R) CAPSULES (tizanidine hydrochloride), a new, capsule formulation of tizanidine, a leading treatment for...
Andrew Stephen on a quadriplegic’s death sentence
For those of you who cannot conceive of the US as a cruel country, read the tale of the young quadriplegic condemned to death...
What is spasticity and neuropathic pain?
Spinal cord injury disconnects the brain from the spinal cord below the injury site. The spinal cord below the injury site does not...
Does recovery occur after spinal cord injury?
Many doctors tell patients and families that recovery does not occur after spinal cord injury. This is not true. Recovery is the rule, not...
Medtronic Announces FDA Approval of Smaller Implantable Drug Pump for Chronic Pain, Severe Spasticity
New programmable pump features greater accuracy, larger reservoirs and longer refill intervals, making treatments more convenient and easier to manage
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), today announced...
What happens below the injury? DO the nerve cells stay alive, do they die...
The axons that have been disconnected from their cell bodies will die. This takes place over a period of days or even weeks.
However,...
