The Practical Paraplegic

If you have sustained a spinal cord injury due to the fault of someone else, you will absolutely need an attorney.You must make an extremely important decision about something you know little or nothing about in deciding which attorney you want to represent you.
How will all this be paid for? Who should I hire? These [...]

[Read more →]

A quarter of a million Americans are currently living with spinal cord injuries, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Although most people know this type of injury can be a devastating diagnosis, not everyone knows there are many different types of spinal cord injuries. The location of the injury along the [...]

[Read more →]

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Man in Motion wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen joined B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell Tuesday to officially open a world-class spinal cord injury research centre in Vancouver. The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre at Vancouver General Hospital will have more than 300 researchers looking for new ways to treat spinal injuries and will provide outpatient [...]

[Read more →]

Currently scientists have been able to temporarily chemically paralyze the wrists of monkeys, and using electrodes attached to computers, reroute brain signals to external wires attached to the wrist muscles. The monkeys were easily able to adapt to the bypass arrangement and begin using their paralyzed wrists to play a video game. Full realization of [...]

[Read more →]

“… But people in pain may find they are robbed of words because of other people’s attitudes. “When you have a chronic illness, you tend to stop saying things because you feel the people around you don’t want to hear it anymore,” Deatherage said.
A network of people going through the same thing can help share [...]

[Read more →]

Stem-cell technology has primarily been the province of small biotechnology companies, such as Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, California and closely held Novocell Inc. of San Diego. Now scientists from Pfizer, working in labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Cambridge, England, will research new treatments to spur stem cells already in people’s bodies to become active [...]

[Read more →]

SYGNIS Pharma AG (Frankfurt: LIO; ISIN DE0005043509; Prime Standard), today announced that it has received Orphan Drug designation from the European Commission for AX200 in the treatment of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). This follows the positive recommendation that SYGNIS received from the EMEA in September.
Orphan Drug designation can be granted for a product that is [...]

[Read more →]

A FEW years ago researchers found a way to create a remotely controlled on-off switch in a neuron by inserting a light-sensitive gene into the nerve cell. Now the same technique has been used experimentally in laboratory rats in a study that could help with spinal-cord injuries. Read more here

[Read more →]

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Retired Army Spc. Scott Winkler had many scary encounters while serving in Iraq, but they were nothing compared with his recent experience at the world’s largest aquarium: swimming alongside a massive whale shark. The fact that Winkler, 35, of Augusta, Georgia, is a paraplegic made the once-in-a-lifetime experience even more challenging. [...]

[Read more →]

Researchers use nanoparticles to deliver treatment for brain, spinal cord injuries - 2008-11-07

Purdue University researchers have developed a method of using nanoparticles to deliver treatments to injured brain and spinal cord cells. A team led by Richard Borgens of the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Center for Paralysis Research and Welden School of Biomedical Engineering [...]

[Read more →]