Article: Chinese Girl Gymnast Suffers Spinal Cord Injury
Xinhua English Newswire;  July 21, 1998 ;     373 words ...China's Sang Lan, 17, suffered a severely ... fractured-dislocation of her spinal cord when she fell on the ground ... evaluate and speak with Sang Lan through an interpreter ... resulted in an injury to her spinal cord." Schnebel said:"At ...

Article: Rutgers neuroscience center opens to further spinal ...
University Wire;  November 8, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... effective in therapy for spinal cord injuries. He said he ... from around world with spinal cord injuries and includes Chinese gymnast Sang Lan who was paralyzed during ... biology, in order to study spinal cord injuries by involving ...

Article: For Paralysis Patients, Some Promising Steps; Two Experimental ...
The Washington Post;  August 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Chinese gymnast Sang Lan's hope for recovery ... the damage to her spinal cord. She also received ... suffer a severe spinal cord injury -- usually ... neck down. The spinal cord is a cable-like ... For example, Sang Lan's injury occurred ...

Article: A Gymnast's Long Fall.(Sang Lan's paralysis may be ...
Newsweek;  August 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... horse and flip to your feet. Sang Lan, China's 17-year-old ... ve never been so good. The spinal cord contains some 20 million nerve ... the way other tissues do, spinal-cord injuries are often devastating ... hope of regaining it. But spinal-cord research has taken off in ...

Article: Spinal Cord Compression
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer;      700+ words ...Spinal cord compression Description In order to understand spinal cord compression, it is useful to understand the structure of the spinal cord and to understand the difference between the spinal cord and the vertebral column. The vertebral column ...

Article: The spinal cord.
Science Weekly;  October 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... publicity surrounding Christopher (Superman) Reeve's spinal cord injury, caused by a riding accident, many people know that spinal cord injury can result in paralysis. As a result of spinal cord injury, some people cannot walk, others cannot ...

Spinal Cord Injury.(Adult Health Advisor 2004.1)
Clinical Reference Systems;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...What is a spinal cord injury? Spinal cord injury is damage to the thick bundle of nerves that runs from the brain to the lower back. This bundle of nerves (spinal cord) is enclosed in the spinal canal, a bony passageway that ...