Tag: Spinal Cord

Teens Undergo Rehabilitation From Spinal Cord Injuries

Injured Football Players Inspired By One Another by WAPT.com - JACKSON, Miss. -- A Murrah High School football player is drawing inspiration from a kindred...

Miami Project to Cure Paralysis/ Buoniconti Fund: “You Raise Me Up” and NBC Beijing...

This moving video is about the incredible work being done everyday at the Miami Project To Cure Paralysis, the world's largest spinal cord injury research center, as we work toward achieving our goal....a CURE for paralysis.

Defining Moment: Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

Inspirational video about the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the largest spinal cord injury research center in the world, narrated by Bob Costas.

Mexico discovers relief for spinal cord injuries

Developed at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City, a polymer shows promise to restore damaged spinal cords in human patients. Mexican researchers have synthesized...

Engineering Angiogenesis Following Spinal Cord Injury

Engineering angiogenesis following spinal cord injury: building functional, stable blood vessels and promoting the formation of the blood-spinal cord barrier

Breakthrough Could Help Heal Spinal Cord Injuries Without Pain

AURORA, Colo., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine say manipulating embryo-derived stem cell precursors prior...

The Peer Program (BC Paraplegic Association)

Jean Potvin was a workaholic who suffered a terrifying accident on the job that broke his back and left him a paraplegic.

Sole Use Of Impaired Limb Improves Recovery In Spinal Cord Injury

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2008) — A new study finds that following minor spinal cord injury, rats that had to use impaired limbs showed full...

Paraplegic balloon pilot hasn’t let injury ground him

KAYSVILLE - Michael Glen hasn't let a Disability tether his dreams. Like his father, Glen wanted to be a hot air balloon pilot. But after...

The European Commission Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Alseres Pharmaceuticals’ Spinal Cord Injury Treatment,...

HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: ALSE - News) announced today that Cethrin has been granted designation as an orphan...