Tag: Spinal Cord
Ryan Creech accepts injury but doesn’t surrender to it
Ryan Creech can't walk, but he's driven to move forward.
Creech — injured three years ago in an all-terrain vehicle accident — runs the telephone...
University of Louisville, Kentucky centers develop treatments, create hope for spinal cord injuries
A bullet remains lodged in Michelle Alexander's spinal cord nearly six years after her husband shot her four times — instantly paralyzing her —...
Animal Study Suggests New Target To Aid Recovery For Patients With Traumatic Injuries
A protein called fibrinogen that is known to help form blood clots also triggers scar formation in the brain and spinal cord, according to...
HealthWatch: Paralysis
People who suffer a spinal cord injury often end up at least partially paralyzed. It used to be that they had little hope of...
Ameristar makes record donation
Money helps VA Medical Center buy equipment
Ameristar's workplace giving campaign presented a $236,000 donation to the VA Medical Center Spinal Cord Injury Service, the...
Next decade offers promise for treatment of spinal cord injuries
New study says a multidisciplinary approach is most likely to achieve results
Although new developments in the management of spinal cord injuries (SCI) are on...
Paralyzed man ‘an inspiration’
LINCOLN -- Larry Schroetlin rarely came across problems he couldn't solve.
He was an auto mechanic and loved to fix things. Townspeople depended on him...
Sit-Ski Success
From school project to the Paralympics
A sit-ski that started as an extracurricular project for some University of Calgary students will be on display at...
News on the underlying mechanisms of spasticity
A recent paper in the journal Nature Medicine sheds some important new light on the underlying mechanisms of spasticity that often develops after a...
Scientists discover cause of destructive inflammations
The signaling molecule CD95L, known as "death messenger," causes an inflammatory process in injured tissue after spinal cord injuries and prevents its healing. This...
