France (TransWorldNews) Stand Together to End Paralysis Now – www.stepnow.org – a spinal cord injury global grassroots initiative launch their first worldwide campaign to urge governments to support and fund research that targets a cure for paralysis.
On October 4th 2006 paraplegics, quadriplegics and their families in 40 countries will participate in a global mailing, the first in a series of actions they hope will raise awareness of the devastation caused by a spinal cord injury, not only to the individual but also to family, highlighting all the ensuing health complications and most importantly the urgency for a cure. Continue Reading »
Sep. 23–The most remarkable thing about Mike Utley is that he says his life really didn’t change on Nov. 17, 1991 — yet admittedly everything did.
With a Pontiac Silverdome crowd watching in concerned silence — and with players from two teams on their knees — some of the longest minutes of a National Football League broadcast ticked off as Utley lay still on the artificial turf while he was treated by medical personnel.
Utley, a former Washington State University football player, was on the offensive line for the Detroit Lions that day. He was hit by a routine blow that would ultimately leave him in a wheelchair. Continue Reading »
Just a few years ago, helping a stroke patient regain the ability to swallow was unheard of. It’s just one way technology has taken Rehabilitation to new heights.
Leslie Cunningham of Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital says technology has made a huge difference in the everyday living skills patients are able to develop. She says advances in medicine are now leading to advances in helping patients regain skills lost or keep them from further deteriorating. Continue Reading »
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ — A newly released study co-authored by a Missouri economist and a public policy expert found that voter approval of Amendment 2, the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, will protect access to future stem cell treatments that could provide cures for diseases and injuries that affect more than 860,000 Missouri patients and family members. The study also concluded that passage of Amendment 2 would benefit the state’s economy and could reduce Missouri’s health care costs by millions of dollars.
The study, titled “The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative: An Economic and Health Care Analysis,” was conducted by Joseph H. Haslag and Brian K. Long. Haslag has a doctorate in economics from Southern Methodist University and is a professor of economics at University of Missouri in Columbia. Continue Reading »
‘Like a buzzing’: 250 Utahns have taken advantage of the implanted stimulator
Joshua Taylor spent half of his senior year in high school restricted to his bed or the couch, missing out on socializing, classes and competitive swimming.
A back injury from a hiking trip caused him so much pain it hurt even to walk. “It was sad for me, because my son’s biggest social interaction was me when I came home from work,” said his mother, Dee Ann Taylor, who is a nurse. Continue Reading »
Patented NASA technology that originally enhanced robotics and sounding rockets is now aiding U.S. soldiers returning from overseas duty with spinal cord or traumatic brain injuries, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., The revolutionary new Physical Therapy device named SAM, for the Secure Ambulation Mode, is based on technology originally developed and honed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Image right:NASA-developed technology was the basis for SAM, a wheeled walker that supports a patient ’s upper body weight and pelvis, and mimics hip joint movement. Credit: NASA Continue Reading »
Patented NASA technology that originally enhanced robotics and sounding rockets is now aiding U.S. soldiers returning from overseas duty with spinal cord or traumatic brain injuries, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., The revolutionary new Physical Therapy device named SAM, for the Secure Ambulation Mode, is based on technology originally developed and honed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
NASA-developed technology was the basis for SAM, a wheeled walker that supports a patient ’s upper body weight and pelvis, and mimics hip joint movement. Credit: NASA Continue Reading »
Cleveland — The body’s spinal cord is like a super highway of nerves. When an injury occurs, the body’s policing defenses put up a roadblock in the form of a scar to prevent further injury, but it stops all neural traffic from moving forward.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Drexel University and the University of Arkansas bypassed this roadblock in the spinal cord. First, the researchers regenerated the severed nerve fibers, also called axons, around the initial large Lesion with a segment of Peripheral nerve taken from the leg of the same animal that suffered the spinal injury. Continue Reading »
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‘Like a buzzing’: 250 Utahns have taken advantage of the implanted stimulator
NASA Technology Helping Injured U.S. Troops