Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Recovery
I understand that 10% repair will make functional recovery, at what % would the...
Let me rephrase your question. Only 10% of the axons in the spinal cord are necessary and sufficient for recovery of functions such as...
Post-doctoral fellow to study spinal cord interneurons with Reeve grant
The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation has awarded Steven Crone, a post-doctoral fellow in Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Physiology, a two-year grant of $120,000 to conduct...
Don’t bet against him
MT. VERNON — Had he been able, he would have leaped out of his bed, fists raised. If his legs had responded, if his...
Antibody Block Helps Regenerate Spinal Cord
An Antibody treatment that neutralizes a nerve growth inhibitor has repaired damaged spinal cords in rats and could do the same in humans.
Researcher Lisa...
Device helps people learn to walk again
After Scott Rayburg was seriously injured in an automobile accident in Ohio last year, surgeons gave him no more than a 15 percent chance...
I’m going to walk again
16-year-old who woke up paralyzed hasn't lost his will or his faith
Zack Murphy got a necktie not long before Father's Day this year, an...
Nerve Cells Successfully Regenerated Following Spinal Cord Injury
Newswise — Using a combination of therapies and cell grafts, a team of University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine researchers has...
What is the level and severity of spinal cord injury?
The consequences of spinal cord injury depend on the level and severity of injury. Surgeons determine injury levels from the fracture site on...
The long road back
Pam Malcolm won't let a near-fatal car crash deter her from attaining her goals.
Pam Malcolm, 20, of Colchester is slowly but surely recovering from...
Yale researchers receive $4.5 million grant to study spinal cord repair
Yale researchers Stephen G Waxman, MD and Jeffery D Kocsis have received a $4.5 million grant from the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development...
