Category: ‘General SCI and Human Interest’
First Global Open-Source Database for Spinal Cord Injury Research Will Be a ‘Game-Changer,’ Say Experts
Posted on August 15th, 2019
U of A research team receives $3.3 million to create data-sharing platform including results from both published and unpublished research.
Experts from the University of Alberta and two universities of California are teaming up to launch the world’s first open-source database for spinal cord injury research.
Experimental Spinal Cord Treatment Helps Texas Man Regain Some Motion After Paralyzing Accident
Posted on May 31st, 2019
Kent Stephenson is on a treadmill, working to put one foot in front of the other as a team of trainers helps guide his legs. There’s a harness holding him upright, but Stephenson is, in a sense, walking again — 10 years after a motocross accident left him paralyzed.
Young Aims for Spinal Injury ‘Cure’
Posted on March 7th, 2012
One of the world’s leading researchers into spinal cord injuries says China could hold the key to a cure that he has been searching for since he met late actor Christopher Reeve in the 1990s.
US-based Doctor Wise Young first used the word “cure” in relation to his work after a conversation with Reeve, the Superman hero who became a quadriplegic in an equestrian accident in 1995.
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More Paralyzed in US than Previously Thought
Posted on April 21st, 2009
About 5.6 million Americans have some degree of paralysis — far more than previously thought, according to the findings of a telephone survey released today by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
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“Moment by Moment: The Healing Journey of Molly Hale”
Posted on April 10th, 2009
“Moment by Moment: The Healing Journey of Molly Hale” is an inspiring documentary film on a woman’s journey to heal from a spinal cord injury. It documents Molly’s progress to work past a prediction that she would be paralyzed from the shoulders down. Through a variety of healing methods and an outpouring of hands-on-support from her community, she is beginning to learn to walk again and has hope for future progress. It is an intimate, touching film that could help others to visualize a healing path for themselves. It can be viewed online for free.