Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
Through new therapy, some partially paralyzed patients approach walking
DALLAS — It takes a body harness, a sophisticated exoskeleton and a quarter-million-dollar treadmill, but Albert Pruitt walks.
Pruitt, who has been partially paralyzed since...
Nurse heads program to lower injury rates
Virginia R. Corrigan knows how devastating brain and spinal cord injuries can be.
While working in the trauma unit at Christiana Hospital in 1993, the...
IKAN Sports Foundation
We’re here to help people who are quadriplegic due to spinal cord injury as well as those affected by diseases such as cerebral palsy,...
Key lawmakers oppose easing stem-cell rules
A car wreck more than 20 years ago left Danny Heumann paralyzed from the chest down.
The Ann Arbor man now runs an organization that...
Levitra effective for ED due to spinal cord injury
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The impotence drug Levitra is helpful for men who have erectile dysfunction (ED) caused by spinal cord injury, according...
Christopher Reeve Foundation Opposes Administration’s Research Budget
SHORT HILLS, N.J., PRNewswire/ -- The Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF), a national, non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for cures and treatments for spinal...
New hope for spinal cord injury patients
ISLAMABAD: Tiny nerves taken from the rib cage, fortified with a powerful growth inducer and transplanted in the spinal cord significantly reversed paralysis in...
AGGRESSIVE PHYSICAL REHABILITATION
In recent years, a variety of aggressive physical Rehabilitation programs have emerged that seem to restore significant function for many people after spinal cord...
Electrical stimulation gives hope to paralyzed
Therapy could help restore some function, some studies suggest
Vibrating tingles of electricity worm into the thin legs of paralyzed children, pulling at their muscles...
Game control gives disabled chance to play
Nintendo has been in the technology spotlight since announcing plans for a video-game controller that can be used with only one hand.
But a disabled...
