Article: Innovative research for a better life: PVA grants advance the understanding of spinal-cord injury and diseases.(Paralyzed Veterans of America)

Article: Study results from E.T. Harness and colleagues update understanding of spinal cord injury prevention.(Clinical report)
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  December 20, 2008 ;     413 words ......intense exercise in chronic spinal cord injury,' is the subject...motor function after spinal cord injury (SCI). Little...IE) in humans with chronic SCI, investigators in...States report (see also Spinal Cord Injury Prevention...function in subjects with ...

Article: Data on spinal cord injury discussed by researchers at Emory University, Department of Physiology.
Biotech Week;  September 10, 2008 ;     428 words ......experiments. Following chronic SCI, the distribution...more prevalent after chronic SCI, and these changes...Physiology (see also Spinal Cord Injury). The researchers concluded: Chronic SCI induces a plastic...of Neurophysiology (Spinal cord injury causes ...

Article: Acorda Therapeutics to Begin Late-Stage Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of Fampridine-SR in Spinal Cord Injury.
PR Newswire;  February 14, 2000 ;     410 words ......enroll 90 people with chronic SCI at ten leading rehabilitation...over 130 people with chronic SCI and over 200 people...people with a long-term spinal cord injury. Fampridine...someone paralyzed from a spinal cord injury, regaining even...developing therapies for ...

Article: Transport of NGFs plus/minus MIF-1 into spinal cord
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  May 1, 1997 ;     410 words ...PURPOSE-Severe damage to the spinal cord has devastating consequences because...accomplish this regeneration of the spinal cord, an adequate supply of nerve growth...substances from the circulation into the spinal cord would open up new approaches to treatment...

Article: Tracking Transplant Cells in Spinal Cord Injury
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  September 1, 2007 ;     194 words ......magnetic nanoparticles into the spinal cord via lumbar puncture (LP) in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). The study included 16 patients with chronic SCI. Ten patients received LP-route spinal cord injections of autologous...injured sites in patients with ...

Article: Analysis: Spinal cord injury patients experience new hope with stem cell research
NPR All Things Considered;  November 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Analysis: Spinal cord injury patients experience new hope...be transplanted into people with spinal cord injuries to help repair damage and...treatment or repair of a damaged spinal cord was inconceivable a mere decade...

Article: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center to Host 'Curing and Coping With Spinal Cord Injury,' a Symposium and Fundraiser on Nov. 30 at the Field Museum.
PR Newswire;  November 29, 2000 ;     688 words ......symposium and fund raising event for spinal cord injury research on Thursday, Nov. 30...will be directed to the Jane Carvey Spinal Cord Research Fund at Rush. Jane Carvey is...occupational therapist who suffered a major spinal cord injury in 1999. Her husband, Paul Carvey...

Article: New data from L. Wielopolski et al illuminate research in spinal cord injury.
Biotech Week;  March 11, 2009 ;     478 words ......legs of patients with spinal cord injury: a new approach...Patients with acute spinal cord injury (SCI) with paralysis...legs of persons with chronic SCI. The intracellular...colleagues (see also Spinal Cord Injury). The researchers...legs of patients with spinal ...

Article: Vascular Events After Spinal Cord Injury: Contribution to Secondary Pathogenesis.
Physical Therapy;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Spinal cord injury results in the initial physical disruption of structures in the spinal cord (primary insult) and in the generation of...improvement of neurological function in the injured spinal cord after myelotomy and removal of the contused...

Article: Is the recovery of stepping following spinal cord injury mediated by modifying existing neural pathways or by generating new pathways? a Perspective. (Spinal Cord Injury Special Series).
Physical Therapy;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the efforts to regenerate the injured spinal cord as a primary means of regaining locomotor...recovery achieved by the mammal with spinal cord injury can be attributed to a reorganization...the loss of supraspinal input to the spinal cord is complete, locomotor networks in the...

Article: Biomechanical properties of human tibias in long-term spinal cord injury
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Abstract--Long-term spinal cord injury (SCI) profoundly...words: biomechanics, bone, spinal cord injury, tibia. INTRODUCTION Permanent damage to the spinal cord is a tragic injury, with...below the level of the spinal cord injury (SCI) far exceeds...content in persons with ...

Article: Reports outline spinal cord injury study findings from University of Pittsburgh.(Report)
Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week;  March 22, 2009 ;     398 words ......stimulation (PES) in chronic spinal cord-injured (SCI) cats...4-5 weeks after spinal cord transection at the...report (see also Spinal Cord Injury). PES was...female cats with chronic SCI. A double-lumen...awake cats with chronic SCI, indicating ...

Article: Scientists finger surprise culprit in spinal cord injury.
Biotech Week;  August 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......alive, runs amok at the site of a spinal cord injury, pouring into the area...causing the devastating damage of spinal cord injury is unexpected. Doctors have known that initial trauma to the spinal cord is exacerbated by a cascade of...

Article: Studies by E.L. Stepp and co-authors describe new findings in spinal cord injury.
Biotech Week;  September 24, 2008 ;     412 words ......volumes in chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). Cross-section...White men (N=336) with chronic SCI. Not applicable. Questionnaire...colleagues (see also Spinal Cord Injury). The researchers...of lung volumes in chronic spinal cord injury. Archives of...