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Rick Hansen Relay comes to Downtown Vancouver: route, start time
The relay begins at the main entrance to the PNE, on Rupert Street. The first medal-bearer is Virginia Vaillancourt chair of the Victoria Regional Women's Committee and the Vancouver Island Human Rights Committee. Hansen will wheel with her, and with
Tags: Rick Hansen Relay, Canada, Vancouver, Rick Hansen, St. Elmo's Fire, Provinces and territories of Canada, British Columbia, Spinal cord injury, sports-news, relay race
Breakthrough surgery restores hand function
The paralysed patient suffered an injury to the lowest bone in his neck. Instead of operating on his spine, doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis used the upper arm nerves to rewire a fresh connection to the patient's brain.
Tags: surgery, Australia, Sydney, Health Medical Pharma, Neurological disorders, spinal cord, Human anatomy, Spinal cord injury
Paralysed man moves hand after op
Nerve rewiring helps paralysed man move hand Health and science reporter, BBC News Man demonstrates use of his hand following surgery...A paralysed man has regained limited use of his hand after pioneering surgery to bypass damage to his spinal cord.
Tags: moves hands, New York, spinal cord, Spinal cord injury, Health Medical Pharma, Peripheral nervous system, Nerve, Neurological disorders
Surgeons Restore Some Hand Function to Quadriplegic Patient
Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored some hand function in a quadriplegic patient with a spinal cord injury at the C7 vertebra, the
Tags: Charlottesville, Health Medical Pharma, Vertebra, spinal cord, Neurotrauma, Vertebral column, Quadriplegia, Spinal cord injury, neck, Neurosurgery
Project Walk-Kansas City, Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Center, Recounts Charity Partnership with Hospital Hill Run
Kansas City's oldest and biggest road race has helped others in their quest to walk. May 10, 2012 Project Walk-Kansas City, formerly known as Quest to Walk, began participating in the
Tags: Project Walk-Kansas City, spinal cord, cord injury, Overland Park, injury recovery, Kansas City, Health Medical Pharma, Kansas, Neurotrauma
From horseback-riding to a wheelchair and back
In the Human Factor, we profile survivors who have overcome the odds. Confronting a life obstacle injury, illness or other hardship they tapped their inner strength and found resilience they didn't know they possessed. This week Krystal Greco, 16,
Tags: Kennedy Krieger Institute, Freedom Hills, spinal cord, Baltimore, Neurotrauma, Spinal cord injury, Equestrianism
My long overdue thank-you
Mail Tribune Perhaps the dumbest question I've ever asked in a lifetime of asking them was posed to Mario Campagna. The talented neurosurgeon had just carefully explained how he hoped to repair my broken neck by taking a bone from my left hip and
Tags: Dr. Campagna, Portland, spinal cord, Neurotrauma, Neurosurgeons, Spinal cord injury, biology
Urban legend and medical care
While those who got the steroid injection did fare somewhat better than those who got alternative treatments (saline or etenercept injections), but the difference was not statistically significant, and leg and back pain actually decreased in all
Tags: Madison, symptoms, Neurotrauma, paraplegia, disability, pain, Spinal cord injury, Quadriplegia, Back Pain, Health Medical Pharma
Jablonski hospitalized in good condition after 'alarming incidents'
Jack Jablonski is back in the hospital, his family said Thursday, because of "several alarming incidents."...Margaret's High School hockey player paralyzed from a check in a junior varsity game on Dec...However, according to the family's CaringBridge
Tags: Jack Jablonski, alarming incidents, Minneapolis, Jablonski, CaringBridge, Spinal cord injury
Blocking protein acts as brake on MS
Australian researchers have found that blocking a particular protein acts as a handbrake to stop the progression of multiple sclerosis. An estimated 21,000 Australians have MS, a disease that can attack parts of the central nervous system such as the
Tags: nerve fibres, spinal cord, Australia, Sydney, Health Medical Pharma, Neurological disorders, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diseases
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