Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: Spinal Cord Injury

How to Play Blues Harmonica after a High Level Spinal Cord Injury

A few years ago Jeremy Olson discovered something that could dramatically improve the quality of life of many people. We already know that the harmonica is...

Spinal Cord Injuries Drop Among Young, But Rise Among Older Americans

Falls are the major cause among the elderly, researchers say While the overall rate of traumatic spinal cord injuries was stable from 1993 to 2012,...

Post-Traumatic Syringomyelia

Syringomyelia is an uncommon but disabling complication of SCI. Although more than half of all people with SCI develop a cyst in the spinal...

Imagine Me Project Sue Murray with people with spinal cord injury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eCLKK4ZXE Imagine Me Project Sue Murray working on a creative photographic project with people living with spinal cord injury http://www.imagineme.com.au/

Upper Limb Kinematics After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Review

Although a number of upper limb kinematic studies have been conducted, no review actually addresses the key-features of open-chain upper limb movements after cervical...

Morphine might take away pain, but does it do more harm than good?

The damaging effects of giving morphine after a major injury. A soldier on the battlefield, a driver in a car accident, a nursing home resident...

UnderstandSCI.com

This website is designed to provide information about spinal cord injury to patients and their families. http://vimeo.com/95067171

National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month 2014

U.S. Senate Resolution 533 designates September 2014 as National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. "...every 48 minutes a person will become paralyzed, underscoring the urgent...

Spinal cord injury: as many as 500,000 people suffer each year

As many as 500,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury each year. People with spinal cord injuries are 2 to 5 times more likely...

Trap shooting offers ‘great therapy’ for veterans with spinal cord injuries

U.S. Navy veteran Jim Trombley, of Ballwin, clutched a firearm to his cheek, his eye riveted along the barrel. There was a long moment...