Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal Cord Injuries and Taxi Service in New York
When you suffer from a spinal cord injury it doesn't mean that you have to stay at home all the time or be dependent...
Life Rolls On Foundation 2009 PSA – Paraplegic Ricky James Does Backflip on Motocross...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbauvOB2I0
Life Rolls On Foundation's second Public Service Announcement (PSA). World debut during the 2008 Ford Ironman World Championship coverage on NBC Sports on December...
Satisfaction with technological equipment in individuals with tetraplegia following spinal cord injury
OBJECTIVE: To measure the acquisition, use and satisfaction with high technology equipment by spinal cord injured tetraplegic subjects. DESIGN AND SETTING: A questionnaire was...
Local doctor recovers from spinal cord injury
For decades, he treated patients in the Roanoke Valley as an orthopedic surgeon, but a bicycle accident flipped the script. In an instant,...
Optimism triumphs over the bleakness
KIM RUSSELL, 46, has lived more than half her life with a spinal cord injury. She thinks the words "false" and "hope" don't belong...
A spine-tingling new frontier
One Sydney scientist likens it to the lunar mission; a potentially great but risky step forward. For some people with spinal cord injury -...
Transplanted fat cells restore function after spinal cord injury
Fat cells treat spinal cord injury
Tampa, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2008) – A study published in the current issue of CELL TRANSPLANTATION (Vol.17, No. 8)...
Centre for Spinal Cord Injuries
The Association for Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injuries (ARSCI) recently announced the forthcoming launch of Sri Lanka’s first ever Rehabilitation Centre for Spinal Cord...
InVivo nears human trials of spine-injury treatment
Spinal cord injury treatment maker InVivo Therapeutics Corp. has successfully wrapped up preliminary primate studies and is now looking to secure funds to go...
A wheel hands-on experience
IT’S been two minutes and I’ve already got a nasty sweat up.
The carpet looked easy enough, but even my slight frame caused the wheelchair...
