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When Richard Travia hit the beach one night last summer he found himself face to face with a year he never could have imagined.
On Aug. 13, 2005, Travia, 25, of Freehold, headed down the shore to Manasquan to catch some waves with his friends. Continue Reading »
DAP chairman Karpal Singh has been wheelchair-bound since an auto accident last January. During his hospitalisation, he and his family downplayed the severity of his injuries. For the first time, he tells CHIN MUI YOON how he survived the ordeal and how he is coping with life as a disabled person.
PARLIAMENT is in full swing and veteran opposition MP Karpal Singh is in his element. Continue Reading »
NASA Technology Helping Injured U.S. Troops
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 »
RANDOLPH – As a child, Diane Niles loved doing cartwheels. She found them easy – up and over. So when her 12-year-old daughter, Ashley, was practicing the gymnastics maneuver for cheerleading, Niles said, ‘‘Here, I’ll show you how.’’
On the front lawn of their Randolph home, Niles did a handstand, swung her legs over her head and collapsed on her face, landing hard on her stomach.
‘‘I’ve done hundreds of them, but something happened that day with my wrists – they gave out,’’ she recalled. 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 »
Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) announced today the publication of preclinical studies that support the safety and utility of GRNOPC1, Geron’s lead human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-based therapeutic product for the treatment of spinal cord injury.
In the studies published in Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Hans Keirstead and his colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, injected GRNOPC1 into the Lesion site of rats that received either very mild or moderate spinal cord contusion injuries. GRNOPC1 survived in both the mild and moderate lesion sites, with a broader distribution of transplanted cells and robust remyelination in the more severe injuries, Continue Reading »
JRRD tipsheet: Focus on spinal cord injury, gait, stroke, power mobility, and more
Feasibility of Functional electrical stimulation for control of seated posture after spinal cord injury: A simulation study, pg. 139
Spinal cord injury (SCI) among veterans that results in paralysis can affect seated posture. We analyzed the potential for controlling pelvis and trunk position with functional electrical stimulation (FES) via computer simulations that approximated a seated subject’s attainable postures. Continue Reading »
Newswise — More than 250,000 people in the U.S. are suffering from long-term spinal cord injuries, with more than 11,000 new occurrences taking place each year. One study appearing in the July 12th issue of the Journal of Neuroscience appears to be on the right track towards providing evidence that a combination of treatments could lead to Regeneration of nerve endings in spinal cord injured patients. The result would be a return of Functional activity. Continue Reading »