Tag: Travel
Blue bracelets – a step toward a cure?
For Chaz Southard, hope exists in the form of a blue plastic bracelet.
"People naturally ask why you're wearing the bracelet and what it's for,"...
Whatever it takes
She's strapped into what looks like an adult version of a baby walker. Amy Foels doesn't care. "Whatever it takes," she says. She's a...
Andrew Stephen on a quadriplegic’s death sentence
For those of you who cannot conceive of the US as a cruel country, read the tale of the young quadriplegic condemned to death...
Quadriplegic man travels to China for stem cell research
By Kevin Otzenberger - Times-News correspondent
BLISS -- A 31-year-old Bliss man will travel to China in January to undergo an experimental treatment that might...
`Superman’ star became real-life fighter for spinal cord research
MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. - Christopher Reeve, the chiseled, strapping "Superman" of celluloid who became another kind of hero as a force for spinal cord...
Three-step paralysis treatment
Paralysis results from an injury or disease that damages the nervous system, affecting the ability to move or feel. Each year, more than 11,000...
Researchers want to read the minds of spinal cord injury patients
Why researchers want to read the minds of spinal cord injury patients.
Imagine a wheelchair with robotic arms that move on command by reading the...
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...
Passers-By Free Quadriplegic Man From Burning Van
Man's Wheelchair Was Anchored To Burning Vehicle's Floor
ALBANY, Ind. -- Good Samaritans and a police officer freed a quadriplegic man from his van Monday...
