Tag: Paralysis
Two Important Recovery Options in Paralysis and Spinal Cord
Recovering from a brain or spinal cord injury can be extremely difficult.
A new approach to paralysis rehab
Book looks at family challenges
Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects an estimated 12,000 people each year, according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center....
Pushing Boundaries
Located in the heart of Puget Sound,NextStepsNW is the Northwest's only paralysis recovery center gearedtowards regaining movement in those paralyzed due to illness, injury,disease...
Student innovations benefit patients
Every other weekday morning, a patient named Joe swims in the 12th-floor pool of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Having sustained a C6-C7 spinal...
One man’s quest to walk again
Editor's note: Paralysis after a spinal cord injury brings wrenching decisions: Do you accept it as permanent and adapt, or do you refuse to...
Varied therapies for spinal cord injury
There is no cure for a spinal cord injury, but much headway has been made in clinical research that could lead to one. Other...
Surfer girl finds out how fragile life really is
Devyn Bisson, 15, suffers a spinal cord injury, gears up the courage to surf again.
HUNTINGTON BEACH She doesn't remember the man's name or much...
Autonomic Dysreflexia: What You Need to Know
A free online webinar from the Reeve Foundation Paralysis Resource Center featuring Dr. Steve Stiens, M.D.
Autonomic Dysreflexia is a serious side effect for some...
Surviving Paralysis
SurvivingParalysis.com facilitates the sharing of information between people with paralysis and other forms of disability, and in so doing, unite people like myself that...
Fil-Am is most severely wounded Iraq veteran
The most severely wounded and disabled US soldier to return home from Iraq is a Filipino-American by the name of Joseph “Jay” Briseno Jr....