Tag: Study
Researchers repair acute spinal cord injury in monkeys
Spinal cord injuries are among the most severe and difficult-to-treat medical conditions, usually resulting in permanent disability including loss of muscle function, sensation and...
Taking Strides Toward Healing Spinal Cord Injuries
Patients with severe spinal cord injury (SCI) often experience chronically low blood pressure that negatively affects their health, their quality of life, and their...
Injuries to spinal cord – treated with hESC therapy: Study
During the past 2 decades, cell-based therapies for SCI have been researched in several studies. Replacement of damaged neural tissues and re-establishing connections between...
Activation of Cervical Spinal Networks Ameliorates Severe Paralysis
A new study suggests that a nonsurgical, noninvasive spinal stimulation procedure can help people with severe spinal cord injury (SCI) regain use of their...
InVivo Therapeutics scaffold device may improve spinal cord injury — 4 key insights
An investigational scaffold device from InVivo Therapeutics increases the likelihood that a patient with acute thoracic complete spinal cord injury will have a neurologic...
Gene jumpstarts regeneration of damaged nerve cells
Searching the entire genome, a Yale research team has identified a gene that when eliminated can spur regeneration of axons in nerve cells severed...
Paraplegic rats walk again after therapy, now we know why
With the help of robot-assisted rehabilitation and electrochemical spinal cord stimulation, rats with clinically relevant spinal cord injuries regained control of their otherwise paralyzed...
Multi-site Study Explores New Approach to Upper Limb Dysfunction After Spinal Cord Injury
A five-year grant from National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research funds multi-site study of intermittent hypoxia in spinal cord injury
East Hanover,...
Early microstructural changes can help predict long-term recovery from spinal cord injury
A trauma to the spinal cord, quickly leads to a progressive loss of nerve tissue. This not only affects the injured area, but over...
Study shows bowel care is top concern for those with spinal cord injury
Cardiovascular physiology researcher Victoria Claydon's latest study, published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, focuses on the results of her multi-national study, which surveyed almost...
