Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
Combination Strategy Promotes Better Recovery of Walking
Investigators at The Miami Project have designed a new triple combination strategy that opens up new possibilities in the search for successful treatments for...
What is Autonomic Dysreflexia?
Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD), also known as Hyperreflexia, is a potentially dangerous complication of spinal cord injury (SCI).
In AD, an individual's blood pressure may rise...
ATHENS, Here we come!
MODESTO -- When Paraplegic athlete Darwin Holmes touched the wall at the America's Center pool in St. Louis, he had a feeling his time...
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...
Senator Pushes Adult Stem Cells
A Senate hearing on stem cells generated heated discussions Wednesday despite the best efforts of the senator in charge.
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) opened the...
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...
Senate Hearing on Adult Stem Cell Research Has Tempers Flaring
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- It was supposed to focus on "good news" associated with advances made in the field of adult stem cell research,...
Reeve deals with New Orleans’ humidity
NEW ORLEANS -- Christopher Reeve and scores of actors are fighting New Orleans' soggy heat in different ways.
Reeve, directing a TV movie about a...
Pulmonary, bladder, and skin care?
Spinal cord injury may compromise breathing and coughing. After cervical spinal cord injury, artificial respiration may be necessary and pneumonia is common. Spinal...
Christopher Reeve to speak at FirstEnergy Park
LAKEWOOD, N.J. – The Lakewood BlueClaws and Eric Taylor’s Empowerment Group are pleased to announce that Christopher Reeve will headline Empower New Jersey 2004,...
