Tag: Spasticity
Robotic technology teaches spinal cord injury patients to walk again
A 50-year-old man paralyzed from the neck down in a devastating motorcycle accident a year ago is learning to walk again with the help...
Acorda Reports Spinal Cord Injury Miss, Positive Trends Seen In MS
By Karen Pihl-Carey
It was a mixed day for Acorda Therapeutics Inc., which said Fampridine-SR missed its endpoints in two pivotal Phase III trials in...
Rehabilitation Process of Persons With Spinal Cord Injury
Rehabilitation Process of Persons With Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal cord injury (SCI) can occur at any time to any individual. Acute SCI is an...
Current Understanding
To understand how treatment for spinal cord injury can be improved, it is important to understand the normal spinal cord and its functions, how...
Secondary damage
Damage to the spinal cord does not stop with the initial injury, but continues in the hours following trauma. Paradoxically, this delayed, secondary damage...
Current Interventions 2004
Drug Therapy
Effective drug therapy for spinal cord injury first became a reality in 1990, when methylprednisolone, the first drug shown to improve recovery from...
When spinal cord injury affects the bowel
Neurogenic bowel is a frequent problem for patients with spinal cord injury. With planning and care, however, you can help them regain control over...
Spinal Cord Injury Treatment and Cure Research
When spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs, one of the most difficult issues to deal with is that there is no “cure” at the...
Understanding the Importance of Language
Every day more than thirty people become paralyzed from spinal cord injury (SCI) or disease. SCI generally results in one of two types of...
Earliest Time Frame of Potential SCI Therapies
Many people have been asking about potential time frames of therapies that are under development for spinal cord injury. There are too many unknowns...
