Yearly Archives: 2013
From Hope to How Soon? Paralympian and Gold Medalist, Victoria Arlen Sets Her Sights...
Paralympian swimmer, Victoria Arlen defies odds and comes back from a vegetative state to win gold at the 2012 London Paralympic Games. With the...
Drug may reduce chronic pain for spinal cord injuries
West Lafayette, Indiana - Researchers have discovered that a known neurotoxin may cause chronic pain in people who suffer from paralysis, and a drug...
Rehab centers adopt motion-based treatments for spinal-cord patients
Locomotor therapies re-create and repeat the pattern of walking to train the spinal cord in functions formerly controlled by the brain.
Locomotor therapies re-create and...
Does the Timing of Surgery to Treat Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Affect Outcomes?
New Rochelle, NY — Performing surgery to take pressure off the spine after a traumatic injury soon after the event could prevent or reverse...
A pacemaker in the brain for spinal cord injury?
Deep-brain stimulation, a technique used for more than a decade to manage the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, may help restore greater function and more...
Dr. John Martin awarded $3.7M for movement control studies
$3.4M from NIH for brain development and injury research; $300K from Neilsen Foundation to study recovery of movement after brain or spinal injury
The laboratory...
Muffy Davis achieves goals despite injury
When Muffy Davis was a teenager, she used to ski against Picabo Street, the two rivals dreaming of someday competing for Olympic gold.
Davis had...
Ocean City family offering athletes with spinal cord injuries a place to swim
OCEAN CITY — For some of the swimmers, like Angel Mullin, they hadn’t been in the water since before their injuries. But Bruckner Chase,...
Knocking Out Spinal Cord Injury: Neuroscientist and Professional Boxer Team Up
Rutgers' Wise Young and Army Capt. Boyd Melson fight to bring clinical trials to the United States
What would one of the world’s leading...
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