Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
Second Opinion Special Edition: Spinal Cord Injury on WXXI-TV Full
Spinal cord injuries usually begin with a blow that fractures or dislocates your vertebrae, the bone disks that make up your spine.
Australian Man Gets Treatment at Shepherd Center
ATLANTA - A 29-year-old Australian man who suffered a spinal chord injury found himself at Atlanta's Shepherd Center for intense rehabilitation.
"I push myself every...
Paralysed rugby player stands again for the first time in 15 years on his...
A former rugby player who was paralysed from the neck down stood again for the first time – on his wedding day.
John Power was...
Aussie Quadriplegic is chicken soup for America’s soul
The serious impact of the spinal cord injury is remembered during the second week of November by Australians with the help of Josh Wood's...
Spleen Might Be Source of Damaging Cells at Spinal Cord Injury Site
Newswise — The spleen, an organ that helps the body fight infections, might also be a source of the cells that end up doing...
Study Seeks New Way to Enhance Neuron Repair in Spinal Cord Injury
Newswise — If researchers could determine how to send signals to cells responding to a spinal cord injury, they might be able to stop...
StemCells plans chronic spinal cord injury trial
(Reuters) - StemCells Inc has filed for Swiss regulatory approval for the first clinical trial of its nerve stem cells in patients with spinal...
Extensive Natural Recovery Seen After Spinal Cord Injury
Newswise — A study led by researchers in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows unexpected...
Just the beginning: Embryonic stem cells used on first patient
For the first time, surgeons have injected a spinal cord injury patient with human embryonic stem cells in a federally approved experiment, a biomedical...
Lives changed forever
IT is Spinal Injuries Awareness Week. For Mackay’s Luke Simmons and his family, sending out the message of how a spinal cord injury can...
