Step It Up Recovery Center becomes Project Walk Orlando

Longwood, FL – Project Walk Orlando would like to announce their recent name change from Step It Up Recovery Center. Project Walk Orlando is one of a handful of Project Walk® Certified Facilities in the U.S. After more than two years in business the local 501(c)3 non-profit organization decided to change their name to show their alliance with their parent company. Continue Reading »

University of Calgary researchers working on a spinal cord injury treatment are getting some help from the Man in Motion.

The Rick Hansen Institute is helping to fund work on an old drug that shows new promise treating spinal cord injuries (SCI).

Dr. John Hurlbert, along with co-investigators Dr. Steven Casha and Dr. Voon Wee Yong have found that minocycline — originally used to treat acne — helps restore movement in patients suffering from SCI.

“We looked at this drug in a mouse model and the results were fascinating,” Hurlbert said. Continue Reading »

The first active orthosis prototype, developed at the UPC, assists muscles affected by incomplete spinal cord injury.

A team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (CREB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) has developed an active knee-ankle orthosis to assist gait in people with incomplete spinal cord injury. The project is being carried out in collaboration with the University of A Coruña and the University of Extremadura. Continue Reading »

InVivo Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass., was founded to focus on research and development of treatment for patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Currently, there are no effective treatments for these patients, and much of the research focuses on treating the symptoms of SCI instead of the underlying pathology.

However, InVivo has focused its efforts on both regenerative medicine and neuroprotection. Its scaffolds are designed to mitigate inflammation and prevent further cell death after SCI as well as support the repair and neuroplasticity recovery process. Continue Reading »