Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center has over 50 years of experience providing quality care for persons with physical disabilities. In the 1950′s, Rancho Los Amigos made its transition to rehabilitative care with the waning of the polio epidemic, refocusing the team treatment approach developed to address polio on the rehabilitation of persons with disabling injury and illness.

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center is internationally renowned in the field of medical rehabilitation, consistently ranked in the top Rehabilitation Hospitals in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. Continue Reading »

Craig Hospital in Denver, Colorado is world renowned as a premier center for specialty Rehabilitation and research for people with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.

Craig is a 93-bed, private, not-for-profit, free-standing, acute care and rehabilitation hospital that provides a comprehensive system of inpatient and outpatient medical care, rehabilitation, neurosurgical rehabilitative care, an equipment company, and long-term follow up services. Nearly half of Craig’s patients come from outside of Colorado, and in 2004 the hospital treated patients from 47 states and several foreign countries. Continue Reading »

Shepherd Center is a private, not-for-profit hospital devoted to the medical care and Rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury and disease, acquired brain injury, Multiple Sclerosis and other neuromuscular problems.

Based in Atlanta, Shepherd Center has been helping people through some of the most difficult and life-changing experiences they can imagine for more than three decades. Continue Reading »

The University of Michigan Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System has been in existence since 1985. It is part of one of the most reputed Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the country, ranked 12th best in the nation in 2004 by US News and World Report. NIDRR has renewed the UM Model SCI Care System’s funding for the period from November 2000 to October 2005. Continue Reading »

The Mount Sinai Spinal Cord Injury Model System (MS-SCI-MS) provides comprehensive care to meet the diverse needs of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Components of this care include treatment at the scene of the accident, acute medical and surgical care, comprehensive inpatient and outpatient Rehabilitation, and facilitation of community reintegration.

The MS-SCI-MS is one of sixteen Model Systems for care of persons with SCI funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education (grant #H133N000027). It is the only such funded Model System in New York State. Continue Reading »

Created in 1978, Cardinal Hill’s Spinal Cord Injury Program is a recognized leader in the Rehabilitation of individuals of all ages with a spinal cord injury.

Following a traumatic accident or because of a disabling disease, many patients need to relearn basic life skills and self-care. Our highly trained specialists treat each individual with dignity as they work toward returning the patient to the highest function of independent living. Our treatment plan includes individualized therapy, group treatment programs and community outings. Continue Reading »

Known for its world-class care in comprehensive acute rehab, the Frazier Rehab Institute includes inpatient and outpatient facilities, a 135-bed hospital on the Jewish Hospital Medical Campus, an expanding system of Outpatient Rehab sites in Kentucky and southern Indiana, and a 60-bed inpatient hospital (owned in partnership with Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services and Clark Memorial Hospital) named Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital. Programs at acute hospitals, nursing homes and industrial sites in a two-state region are also included in the Network.

Frazier is committed to the development of programs which combine traditional rehab with innovative therapeutic techniques. Continue Reading »

Leading UK-based Christian charity CARE has expressed concern at the recent Council of Europe decision to continue allowing EU taxpayers’ cash to fund embryonic stem cell research, where embryos already exist (often from IVF processes) for the next six years.

Calling for more funding to become available to expand research into adult stem cells, CARE reveals that there are more scientific results from adult stem cell research than research into embryonic stem cells. Continue Reading »

The UAB Model SCI System conducts research to improve upon and maintain a cost-effective comprehensive service delivery system from the moment of injury across the lifespan of persons who sustain spinal cord injury. Emphasis is on collaborative clinical research to solve the medical management and Acute rehabilitation problems of individuals with SCI.

The UAB Model SCI Care System is funded by grant #H133N000016 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C. Opinions expressed in the material listed are not necessarily those of the granting agency. Continue Reading »

COLLINGWOOD footballer Blake Caracella announced his retirement from AFL yesterday after learning he risked possible paralysis if he played again.

Caracella was involved in an accidental clash with the Lions’ Tim Notting in round 10, suffering a fractured Vertebrae and bruising to the spinal cord.

Subsequent X-rays revealed that the former Essendon and Brisbane premiership player had a pre-existing spinal flaw. Continue Reading »