Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Recovery
Upper-Extremity Pain
For 20 years, Tom had “no aches, no pains, no nothing.” Why was his luck changing now? Maybe his shoulder pain started because his...
UofL Scientist Says Embryonic Stem Cells Key To Healing Spinal Cord Injuries
(LOUISVILLE) -- Days after Senate Majority Leader Bill First's pledge to support federal funding for research on human embryonic stem cells, scientists at the...
New Therapy for Paraplegia and Quadriplegia
GIGER MD® Therapy is a unique therapy method
The damaged or functionally impaired CNS (Central Nervous System) is functionally reorganised in its activated network parts...
Walker raising funds for spinal cord injuries
This is not the best time of year to be walking across the province, but Anne Vant Erve is a woman with a mission.
"I'm...
Researchers Identify Genes That Foster Blood Cell Development From Stem Cells
For a child with leukemia or lymphoma, a donation of umbilical cord blood can be a lifesaver. But cords contain only a small amount...
MacLaren’s ‘gift’: Persevering through paralysis
To bathe the inspirational Jim MacLaren entirely in sunlight would be to deny his journey out of the darkness.
If life was indeed fair to...
Crespi graduate overcomes injury through perseverance, exercise therapy
Mike McNamara's light blue-green eyes fairly glisten as he talks about walking on the USC campus this fall as a college freshman. Only two-and-a-half...
Teens with spinal cord injuries
Seventeen-year-old Van Brooks felt somewhat out of place talking to adults with spinal cord injuries after his own paralyzing accident last fall. Sure, the...
Clinical Studies Abroad: What Can We Learn?
Recently there has been news from various countries of the effects of transplanting olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) into people with spinal cord injury (SCI)....
Stem cell research activist, Dr. Wise Young, tackles current issues
DETROIT - (KRT) - Ten minutes after a recent announcement that South Korean scientists had discovered an efficient way to produce stem cells, the...
