Tag: Quality Of Life
Improving Life for People With Spinal Cord Injuries
“We are trying to improve someone’s quality of life. If someone can breathe without a ventilator, then you’ve increased their independence, and that, to...
How is Spirituality Linked to Quality of Life in People with Spinal Cord Injury?
A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage anywhere along the spinal cord, often due to an accident or other trauma. SCI typically causes a...
Paralysed Irishman’s inspiring invention will help others living with spinal cord injuries
A MEDICAL engineer from Gloucestershire who was paralysed as a teenager is hoping his pioneering invention will help improve the quality of life for...
World’s First Child-Sized Exoskeleton Aims To Improve Quality Of Life Of Kids With Spinal...
https://youtu.be/aPkkjOMB-J4
A research team in Spain has developed the world's first exoskeleton prototype to help disabled children learn how to walk and sustain mobility. The...
Cooling improves quality of life for spinal cord injury patients
A study looking at reducing the severity of spinal injuries by reducing a patient's body temperature immediately after an accident is entering a new...
Device helps paralyzed patients operate laptop with their eyes
The movement of limbs comes so fluidly and effortlessly for many of us that it is easy to take for granted. But those who...
Bioelectronic devices to improve quality of life after SCI
https://youtu.be/QABmt_m3Y-k
Bioelectronic devices that record and stimulate the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves have potential to dramatically improve function after injury or disease. For...
A Life Repurposed
Ryan Atkins was on path to graduate from UC when a devastating 2009 car accident left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Six years...
Severed spinal cord no barrier for former rodeo rider
IN THE final minutes of 2003 at a New Year’s Eve rodeo at Townsville’s Black River, Steven Elliott bucked off a bronc called Spaghetti...
“My everyday life is not ‘legendary’, any more than yours is” -Tim Rushby-Smith
Why should taking my kids to the beach be a source of inspiration? There’s so much more we could talk about than the fact...
