Article: Spinal cord injury inspires executive to help others: foundation has raised $1m since founder's motorcycle accident.

Article: Spinal Cord Injury--Part 2.
Palaestra;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......and some possible cures for spinal cord injury were presented. However, a...primary injury in a person with spinal cord injury is to the spinal cord itself...Associated with Spinal Cord Injury Spinal cord injury causes long term ...

Article: The devastating effects of spinal cord injuries. (includes related articles on the incidence of spinal cord injuries among young males and about spinal cord injury first aid)
Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......the devastating effects of spinal cord injury. Reeve became one of more than...percent of those who suffered spinal cord injury died. Today many more lives...RELATED ARTICLE: First Aid for Spinal Cord Injury How should you react at the...

Article: Spinal cord injury: management by acupuncture.(care and treatment)
The Journal of Chinese Medicine;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Abstract The treatment of spinal cord injury presents major difficulties. Practitioners...neuroanatomical science, flexion reflex, spinal cord injury. Introduction Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition which can...

Article: Acorda Therapeutics Initiates Phase 3 Clinical Trials of Fampridine-SR for Chronic Spinal Cord Injury.
Business Wire;  June 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Fampridine-SR, in chronic spinal cord injury. The trials will evaluate the...more than 70 of the leading spinal cord injury (SCI) clinical centers in the...treatment options in chronic spinal cord injury, especially spasticity. Spasticity...

Article: Where Are We Now? Are There Cures in the Future?(Spinal Cord Injury, part 1)
Palaestra;  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......of research into cures for spinal cord injury (SCI) and types of therapies...neuron injury. But most types of spinal cord injury involve damage to nerves that...movement and feeling (complete spinal cord injury) or a partial loss of either...

Article: Spinal Cord Injury
U*X*L Complete Health Resource;      700+ words ...SPINAL CORD INJURY DEFINITION Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation...States. About 250,000 people currently have this condition. Spinal cord injury can happen to anyone at any time of life. The typical patient...

Article: Wheeling and dealing; living with spinal cord injury.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2006 ;     150 words ......Wheeling and dealing; living with spinal cord injury. Wilder, Esther I. Vanderbilt...with 32 men and women with spinal cord injury, exploring the extent to which people with spinal cord injury locate their challenges in...

Article: Cyberkinetics Provides Andara(TM) OFS(TM) Therapy for Spanish Motorcycle Racer with Spinal Cord Injury.(Medical condition overview)
Business Wire;  April 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......racer who recently suffered a spinal cord injury during a high speed crash...Spain, for treatment at its spinal cord injury unit by a vertebral-column...Life Foundation, a European Spinal Cord Injury Foundation based in Austria...

Article: Research and Markets: Moving Forward after Spinal Cord Injury DVD Contains Current Best Practices in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation.
Business Wire;  January 15, 2009 ;     300 words ......of the Moving Forward after Spinal Cord Injury DVD report to their offering. Moving Forward after Spinal Cord Injury is a comprehensive, educational...used by therapists to prepare spinal cord injury patients and families for discharge...

Article: Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan Is the First Midwest Rehabilitation Hospital to Participate in Proneuron's Clinical Research Trial for Spinal Cord Injury.
Business Wire;  November 16, 2004 ;     622 words ......an experimental procedure for acute spinal cord injury (SCI). Assisting RIM in screening spinal cord injury patients for this experimental procedure...spinal cord injuries. As a leader in the spinal cord injury community for more than 50 years, we...

Article: Facts, figures, and trends on spinal cord injury.(Spinal Cord Injury: Part 1 of 3)
American Rehabilitation;  September 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...The Model Spinal Cord Injury Care Systems began as a concept...convinced Congress about the needs of spinal cord injury (SCI) victims and the disarray of service delivery for persons with spinal cord injury. Congress subsequently mandated...

Article: Geron Announces Publication of Studies Showing Oligodendrocyte Progenitors Derived From Human Embryonic Stem Cells Induce Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury.
Business Wire;  May 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ......neurological disorders such as spinal cord injury. In the May 11 issue of the...central nervous system. After spinal cord injury and the subsequent inflammatory...transplanted directly into the rat spinal cord injury survived and migrated appropriately...

Article: Recovery following spinal cord injury.
American Rehabilitation;  December 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most devastating...activities of daily living following a spinal cord injury. In order to adequately assess recovery following spinal cord injury, it is necessary to have a common...

Article: Acorda Therapeutics Receives L.W. Freeman Award for Scientific Research; NSCIA Recognizes Acorda's Significant Contributions in Spinal Cord Injury Research.
Business Wire;  November 13, 2002 ;     558 words ......tomorrow evening at the National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA) 2002 Annual...research on regeneration in spinal cord injury or disease and was established...knowledge of treatment for spinal cord injury. Dr. Freeman was a tireless...