Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: Quality Of Life

Spinal cord injury a staunch foe

Therese Riedel is battling back from a spinal cord injury she suffered in September 2008. SAN DIEGO – Growing up in La Mesa and playing...

Creating the best possible clinical trials

The Reeve Foundation's North American Clinical Trials Network NOA Task Force met September 24th in Dallas, TX to continue what it began last May...

Two Powerful Foundations Join Forces To Create the Nation’s Premier Spinal Cord Injury Organization

Life Rolls On Foundation and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Merge SHORT HILLS, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On what would have been Christopher Reeve's...

New Academy to Improve Health Care for the Spinal Cord Injured Supported by Paralyzed...

DALLAS, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new interdisciplinary force for quality health care for people living with spinal cord injury/dysfunction (SCI/D), the Academy of...

Redefining ‘Cured’

A spinal-cord-injury activist puts a new priority on living with—not fighting—paralysis. Ever since 1988, wheelchairs have figured into Alan T. Brown's dreams. That was...

Asheville’s ‘Paraplegic Chef’ Megan McCauley sets an example

One night changed the course of Megan McCauley's young life. The former chef at Carmel's Bar and Restaurant was in an ATV accident Nov. 21,...

“What life can I build?”

A week from Friday would have been Christopher Reeve's 57th birthday. I bring it up nine days ahead of time because it happened again...

Life Rolls On Announces Celebrity Honorary Chairmen for Annual Gala

Life Rolls On Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for young people affected by spinal cord injury, today named...

Funding Your Way to Quality of Life

Funding can be a need when it comes to living with a spinal cord injury and keeping up with the devices and therapies that...

A C7 quadriplegic jamming out on his guitar

There's always meaning in a song, and a story behind the band that performs it. Check out the story behind 61 North. They aren't...