Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Education
Repairing the Damaged Spinal Cord
Once little more than a futile hope, some restoration of the injured spinal cord is beginning to seem feasible
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Creative physical therapy improves lives of people with paralysis
Every 41 minutes someone sustains a spinal cord injury. Almost half of these injuries are due to Motor vehicle crashes, followed by the next...
Paraplegic turns trailblazer
It's 4.5 hard miles down the Bright Angel Trail to Indian Garden, not far above the floor of the Grand Canyon, and 4.5 even...
Protein shown to play a key role in normal development of nervous system
Findings may someday inform treatments for spinal cord, other nerve injuries
A protein that enables nerve cells to communicate with each other plays a key...
Spinal cord injury lawyer on paralysis
Spinal cord injuries cripple around eleven thousand people in the United States each year. Oftentimes, the victim’s injuries result in permanent paralysis, an injury...
U.S. Sen. Harkin- Statement Regarding the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D- IA) delivered the following remarks yesterday on the floor of the Senate urging the adoption of...
Improving schools’ support for children with spinal cord injury
This research study was carried out by the Thomas Coram Research Unit, the Institute of Education at the University of London between January and...
Breakthrough Could Help Heal Spinal Cord Injuries Without Pain
AURORA, Colo., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine say manipulating embryo-derived stem cell precursors prior...
Breakthrough in spinal injury treatment
Manipulating embryo-derived stem cells before transplanting them may hold the key to optimizing stem cell technologies for repairing spinal cord injuries in humans. Research...
The First 72 Hours After SCI: Clinical Practice Guidelines
The Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine has released "Early Acute Management in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury," a guide to managing the critical first...
