Tag: Spinal Cord
Custom INGRESS’R® from Wikk Industries Helps Turn “ICORD” Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre’s Mission...
Wikk's highly specialized custom elevator activation switches are featured in The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre in the Vancouver General Hospital site - The ICORD's...
Spinal Cord and Back Injuries Caused by Motor Vehicle Accidents
Every year, over 2 million people are injured in automobile accidents. Some of the most common and often overlooked injuries are to the spinal...
Spinal Cord Injury- Is the Cure in China?
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"Spinal Cord Injury: Is the Cure in China?"
Dr. Wise Young talks about his experience visiting over 100 hospitals in China and beginning the Spinal...
Signatures for Spinal Cord Research
Global Petition in support of Spinal Cord Research
The launch of a global petition in support of spinal cord research took place yesterday. Signatures for...
13 Days of Caring: Spinal Cord Injury Association
On a snow day in March of 1999, life suddenly changed for Debbie Burke. The sixth-grade teacher took her kids sledding at Ottawa Park...
Nose for a cure: Could the key to helping spine injury victims walk be...
Stem cells taken from the nose could help spinal injury victims regain movement, new research suggests.
Tests on paralysed rats showed they were able to...
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...
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...
