Tag: Spinal Cord
Woman ‘keeps going’ in battle against paralysis
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS — Like actor Christopher Reeve, Jenifer M. Bonner believes in persistence. The 27-year-old hasn’t been able to walk since a July 4,...
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...
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...
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...
If the scar forms around the outside (from a bruise), why do the nerves...
Adhesion of the spinal cord to the surrounding dura and tethering of the cord has several potential deleterious effects on the spinal cord. First,...
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,...
Don’t bet against him
MT. VERNON — Had he been able, he would have leaped out of his bed, fists raised. If his legs had responded, if his...
