Although many spinal cord injury patients cannot drive after their accidents, others can still pursue this activity following extensive rehabilitation therapy. Once fine motor coordination and strength return to an injured person’s hands and arms, it may be safe to drive again. However, some spinal cord injury (SCI) patients with other chronic physical (or cognitive) [...]
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8. September 2011
Michael Johnson: SCI Injuries Haven’t Stolen His Indy 500 Dreams
When you’re struggling to meet your first rehabilitation treatment goals following a spinal cord injury (SCI), it can really lift your spirits to read about someone like SCI survivor Michael Johnson. Now just 18 years old, Johnson is pressing forward with many different racing competitions, determined to one day become the first paralyzed driver to [...]
8. August 2011
High-Tech Suit Helps Paraplegic Pilot Walk Again
by Elizabeth Smith Learning to live your daily life with a serious spinal cord injury isn’t easy, to say the least. Just ask Lieutenant Ian James Brown whose 2002 motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. While struggling to find out which motor skills he had lost, Brown also had to cope with [...]
21. July 2011
Spinal Cord Injuries Statistics | Sacramento Spinal Cord Injury Attorney | Sacramento Back Injury Attorney
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center of Birmingham, Alabama, about 12,000 new cases of spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are reported in the United States each year. At any given time, roughly 265,000 Americans are struggling to live their lives around these injuries. (Estimates actually run between 232,000 afflicted individuals to about 316,000). [...]
18. July 2011
The Cancer Drug Taxol May Help Spinal Cord Injury Patients
Medical researchers keep searching for new ways to help spinal cord injury (SCI) patients regenerate healthy nerve cells so they can achieve higher levels of rehabilitation. At present, most SCI patients must fight regeneration problems caused by scar tissue that increases the barrier between severed nerve cells and an internal cellular process that directly blocks [...]
29. June 2011
Spinal Cord Injury Complications
Patients must often endure considerable pain and loss of mobility when they develop spinal cord injuries following car accidents or other mishaps. While medications and physical therapy can help diminish the pain and provide added mobility, secondary physical complications can prove equally challenging. Complications Following Spinal Cord Injuries When forced to lie in bed in [...]
16. May 2011
SCI Stem Cell Clinical Trial Awarded $25 Million Dollars
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has recently awarded $25 million dollars to “the first clinical trial based on cells derived from human embryonic stem cells that has been approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA).” This clinical trial has been specifically designed to benefit spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. Every year, 12,000 Americans [...]
10. May 2011
How Exoskeletons Can Help Some SCI Patients
Unfortunately, most spinal cord injury (SCI) patients must endure lengthy periods of rehabilitation. This is true whether the patient has suffered an “incomplete spinal cord injury” or a “complete spinal cord injury.” The former refers to a patient whose spinal cord has only been partially damaged while the latter refers to an individual who is [...]
4. April 2011
Robots and Spinal Cord Injury Patients
Science fiction and reality keep intersecting in new ways. Before long, more and more disabled patients may be able to use their thoughts to control robots There’s so much belief in this technology that even America’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be helping to fund a 2011 human experiment in this field. At a [...]
28. March 2011
Can Specific Astrocytes One Day Repair Spinal Cord Injuries?
Research teams at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the University of Rochester Medical Center recently worked together to discover promising new ways to use stem cells called astrocytes. After lab rats with spinal cord injuries were injected with astrocytes, the rats started to regain specific motor and central nervous system functions. It’s [...]
30. December 2011
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