Yearly Archives: 2011
There’s Nothing Like the Voice(s) of Experience
A spinal cord injury affects the entire family. For families who are dealing with a new spinal cord injury, there is often a sense...
Ability Expo unites services and people
They came in wheels, with dogs and on foot to see dancers, sword-fighters and experts.
Visitors flowed in steadily, mostly in wheelchairs, to join the...
Around India on Wheels
Four wheelchair-bound friends are touring India in an effort to sensitise the government and the people to the need of making travel barrier-free for...
Wheelchair basketball more competitive than you’d think
With Nov. 1 quickly approaching, there is still no start to the NBA season in sight. If you’re a basketball fan and you’re feeling...
Working2Walk 2011, Jerry Silver
Robust Functional Regeneration Beyond the Glial Scar
At 1 year, UCI stem-cell treatment safe
The world’s first test on patients of a treatment for spinal cord injury using human embryonic stem cells is so far proving safe, one...
Spinal cord injuries associated with increased risk of heart disease
Vancouver – New research from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation may help explain why people with spinal...
Working2Walk 2011, Anthony Caggiano (Acorda)
The Challenges of Chondroitinase Development for Spinal Cord Injury
Keefer family of Newberry Township to be featured on ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ on...
Brian Keefer expects a lot of tears when he and his family watch the episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” on Friday, accompanied by...
Working2Walk 2011, W. Dalton Dietrich, PhD
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
