Tag: Wheelchairs
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness – Understanding the Importance of Language and Images
Every day more than 30 people become paralyzed from spinal cord injury (SCI) or disease. SCI generally results in one of two types of...
Common Questions about Spinal Cord Injury
1. What is Spinal Cord Injury?
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as...
Treatment
Fifty years ago, a spinal cord injury was usually fatal. Today, there's still no way to reverse damage to the spinal cord. But advances...
Embracing challenges
Snowmass Village - Mario Uribe didn't believe.
With his right leg and left arm missing since his exposure to radiation while in the armed services...
Peabody man hopes state lawmakers understand how important stem cell research is
Yes, being paralyzed from the waist down can cause some inconveniences in daily life, but it isn't the end of the world.
That's the message...
Moving Stem Cells Front and Center
IRVINE, Calif. - Hans S. Keirstead might be the Pied Piper of stem cells - and not just because he makes rats walk. He...
A bike for the paralysed
By Jane Elliott - BBC News Health Reporter
People paralysed by spinal cord injuries could soon be able to go out cycling.
Scientists say the tricycle,...
Paralympic athletes shooting for awareness
Don't pity the women on the USA Wheelchair Basketball team.
That's the message from South University's Mary Vacala, appointed to the medical staff for the...
Non-embryonic stem cells: Healing for broken bodies
WASHINGTON (BP)--Susan Fajt and Laura Dominguez have experienced the miraculously restorative power of stem cells, and no embryos had to be destroyed for them...
I’m going to walk again
16-year-old who woke up paralyzed hasn't lost his will or his faith
Zack Murphy got a necktie not long before Father's Day this year, an...
