Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Recovery

Everett talks about his recovery from paralysis

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Three years ago, a hit on the football field left Kevin Everett paralyzed. He became one of the 300,000 Americans living...

Recovering Movement In Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

The University of California, Irvine, has just completed the very first study to show that human stem cells can bring back movement in spinal...

Cleveland Clinic receives $1 million grant for spinal cord research

The Cleveland Clinic has received a $1 million federal grant to research treatments for spinal cord injuries. The National Institutes of Health grant will help...

Avatars take to the stage in SPINE

When the cast of a new play plans its positions on a stage, the complicated process of mapping out its moves (known as blocking,...

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A walking miracle

Richard Perrin was thrown off a motorcycle at 160 km/h. ‘I came out on thewrong side of the risk-reward equation,’ he says of the...

Healing Together: The Albert Keys Story

Albert was on his way to get his grandmother a hamburger when he suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a car accident.

Healthy Eating for Spinal Cord Injury Patients

19-year-old Dominique Harris is a C5-C6 quadriplegic and former patient at National Rehabilitation Hospital.

Paralyzed soccer girl returns to school doing wheelies

Five weeks after collapsing on a soccer field with an injury that paralyzed her lower body, Mackenzie Saunders returned to school this week. Her fellow...

Findings offer potential significance to the recovery of walking after spinal cord injury

Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet have created a genetically modified mouse in which certain neurons can be activated by blue light. Shining...