Or, you might find a support group of people with spinal cord injuries helpful.
Reeve died in 2004, and there is still no cure for spinal cord injuries.
Any treatment would provide some long-awaited good news to the 250, 000 Americans living with spinal cord injuries.
He was shot in the head, suffered brain and spinal cord injuries and was confined to a wheelchair.
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In the thousands of years since, medical science has had little more to offer patients with spinal cord injuries.
Actor Christopher Reeve put the spotlight on spinal cord injuries after he was paralyzed in 1995 in a riding accident.
Today, Canales' nonprofit, Gridiron Heroes, provides emotional and financial support to high school football players who've sustained life-changing spinal cord injuries.
Green says the option of using moderate hypothermia as a treatment might well improve prospects for many people who suffer catastrophic spinal cord injuries.
Right now, there are researchers all over the world looking to heal spinal cord injuries by regenerating the nerves that were damaged.
Scientists hope human embryonic stem cell research will lead to treatments and cures for many diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer's and spinal cord injuries.
The unit was founded in 1944 by neurologist Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann to treat servicemen who had sustained spinal cord injuries in World War II.
In March 1986, Williams suffered spinal cord injuries in a car accident after leaving the Paul Ricard Circuit in France, where he had been watching testing.
Very few human spinal cord injuries occur as a result of a direct cut through spinal tissue (as was the injury model in the Courtine study).
Sangamo BioSciences is going after conditions and diseases for which there are no good drug treatments, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and spinal cord injuries.
In addition to producing stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries, Geron says, it has seven other types of cells derived from stem cells in its pipeline.
Rats that were partly paralyzed from spinal cord injuries regained some ability to swim, cross a ladder and perform other basic tasks after being treated with similar antibodies.
Advocates for those suffering from a host of diseases -- including diabetes, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries -- are eagerly awaiting the Bush-era restrictions to be lifted.
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Last year, the company got approval from the Food and Drug Administration last July to run a clinical trial of embryonic stem cells in patients with spinal cord injuries.
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Vox is a brain injury specialist at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, where he focuses on the management of complicated cases, including disorders of consciousness, dual brain and spinal cord injuries, and associated polytrauma.
Martin Joel Erzinger, a billion dollar Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisor, managed to dodge felony charges on a hit-and-run incident that left his victim with spinal cord injuries and bleeding from the brain.
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Speaking to BBC News online, Prof Buchan said the focus of this research was on "ways to keep brain cells alive" which could have impacts beyond stroke - such as in Alzheimer's disease and spinal cord injuries.
Sangamo BioSciences (nasdaq: SGMO - news - people ) is going after conditions and diseases for which there are no good drug treatments, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and spinal cord injuries.
Designed for stroke patients and those suffering from brain or spinal cord injuries, these so-called medical micropower networks (MMN) use a set of implanted electrodes and a wearable wireless controller to stimulate the muscles of a paralyzed user.
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Besides stroke, he says, drugs aimed at the new targets could prove useful for treating spinal cord injuries, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, even epilepsy--because the same toxic cascade that occurs after a stroke also happens after many other types of brain damage.
Besides stroke, Dr. Suzdak says, drugs aimed at the new targets could prove useful for treating spinal cord injuries, Lou Gehrig's disease or even epilepsy--because the same toxic cascade that occurs after a stroke also happens after many other types of brain damage.
Although the first Paralympics were held in Rome in 1960, they were inspired by the Stoke Mandeville Games - a sports contest for British World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries that was organised by Dr Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1948.
While conceding that "the full promise of stem cell research remains unknown" and "should not be overstated, " Obama nevertheless expressed hope that the order will help spur faster progress in the search for cures to afflictions such as Parkinson's disease, cancer and spinal cord injuries.
And several studies show that even people with spinal-cord injuries tend to rebound in spirits.
For example, fresh nerve cells could alleviate spinal-cord injuries, or newly made heart cells could repair a site scarred by a heart attack.
Dr Silver is hopeful that the work on rats, which is published in the Journal of Neuroscience, will have relevance to humans and not just those with spinal-cord injuries.
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