Sentences with phrase «person with spinal cord injury»

The result, a first for human subjects, brings scientists a step closer to restoring mobility for people with spinal cord injuries, lost limbs, and other conditions that limit movement.

The three - year federal grant will fund research to identify treatments for cognitive difficulties in persons with spinal cord injury.

The therapeutic benefits of epidural stimulation have been well - documented for chronic back pain, but a small number of experimental trials are testing the treatment on people with spinal cord injuries.

This study will include 36 people with spinal cord injuries who will be treated with epidural stimulation — a technique in which a device is used to apply electrical current to the spinal cord.

There are many challenges facing people with spinal cord injury — and walking again is often the least of their problems.

People with spinal cord injuries often can no longer perform the duties they need to complete at work.

She says people with spinal cord injuries aren't as permanently broken as some may think.

The findings suggest that, with more confirming research in animals and humans, gene therapy may hold the potential to one day treat people with spinal cord injuries.

If trials are successful, in a few months from now people with spinal cord injuries could learn to do the same.

Support organisation for people with spinal cord injuries, which provides clinical services, care and accommodation.

Decreasing disability infections has a strong impact on the lives of people with spinal cord injury.

Current treatments for neuropathic pain in people with spinal cord injuries most often involve opioids and other pain medications, as well as certain antidepressants, which have many side effects and tend to have limited efficacy.

«Chronic pain and bladder dysfunction remain significant quality - of - life issues for many people with spinal cord injuries.

People with spinal cord injuries also may be more susceptible to pneumonia, osteoporosis, bone fractures, muscle spasms, urinary tract infections and blood clots.

BCI technology can support people with spinal cord injuries or neurodevelopmental disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia, helping them interact with the world.

The findings also have applications for powered exoskeletons, which allow people with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities to walk.

People with spinal cord injuries suffer from many complications in addition to paralysis and numbness.

Exoskeletons have the potential to help stroke victims and people with spinal cord injuries walk again (SN: 11/16/13, p. 22)-- and even kick soccer goals (SN Online: 6/12/14).

If the monkeys demonstrate that it is possible to steer the arm with brainpower alone, Schwartz and colleagues will give people with spinal cord injuries a chance to try the MPL.

Nicolelis, who is based at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, calls the results «unprecedented» and suggests that a similar training regimen could one day help many other people with spinal cord injuries or those impaired by stroke.

The article, Differences in the community built environment influence poor perceived health among persons with spinal cord injury, was published in Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (doi: 10.1016 / j.apmr.2015.04.025).

The course will also address how to improve communication between people with spinal cord injury and their PCAs.

We asked them if they could create a law firm for the specific purpose of serving persons with spinal cord injury, what would that firm look like: what kind of service would it need to provide, what kind of people would need to run it?

Researchers from the two institutions are working together on the next generation of robotic exoskeletons to improve mobility and to enable safer, more independent functioning for people with spinal cord injuries (SCI), Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and stroke.

Aspire Law's profits are shared equally between Moore Blatch and Aspire, and Aspire uses its share to help persons with spinal cord injury who do not have a claim for compensation (most people who have spinal cord injury do not have a claim for compensation).

To that end, UofL is screening participants for a six - year study that will further explore the life - enhancing effects of epidural stimulation on people with spinal cord injury (SCI).

In the mid-1990s, Langer was working with colleagues at Harvard Medical School to study the idea of using biomaterials in combination with cells or drugs to improve functioning in people with spinal cord injuries; he published the results of rodent studies in 2002.

But the vast majority of people with spinal cord injuries are the chronic patient population, and a treatment that might work for them would capture a larger number of patients who are really in need of better treatments.»

Trials show that it improves sensory and motor functions in people with spinal cord injuries.

The research — led by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., as part of the Walk Again Project in São Paulo, Brazil — offers promise for people with spinal cord injury, stroke and other conditions to regain strength, mobility and independence.

Starner realized MMT might also help people with spinal cord injuries.

In a new study by Flesher et al., microelectrode arrays were implanted into the primary somatosensory cortex of a person with spinal cord injury and, by delivering current through the electrodes, generated sensations of touch that were perceived as coming from his own paralyzed hand.

Researchers envision the e-dura being used in people with spinal cord injuries, as a brain implant and even to correct nerve damage in other parts of the body.

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

Before this treatment, Summers, like most people with spinal cord injuries, could not sweat below the level of his injury, and he had trouble regulating his blood pressure and getting an erection; he had no control over his bladder and bowels.

These advances in external EEG have enabled Contreras - Vidal and his team to develop brain - computer interfaces for people with spinal cord injuries and degenerative nerve diseases.

To that end, UofL is screening participants for a six - year study that will further explore the life - enhancing effects of epidural stimulation on people with spinal cord injury.

Kessler will conduct a study of a combination therapy using dalfampridine — a drug recently approved to improve walking in patients with multiple sclerosis — with a standardized program of locomotor training, a rehabilitative intervention that has improved walking and other functional outcomes in persons with spinal cord injuries.

The five - year grant funds the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System (NNJSCIS), a comprehensive system of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with spinal cord injury.

«Everything changes for the person with spinal cord injury, not just mobility,» he stressed.

Dr. Fyffe, an expert in health disparities, is an author on two posters: «Qualitative study of the impact of blood pressure dysregulation on quality of life in SCI» and «Self - reported symptoms of blood pressure dysregulation in persons with spinal cord injury.»

John DeLuca, PhD, VP of Research & Training at Kessler Foundation is giving the James J. Peters Memorial Lecture, named for the executive director of United Spinal Association who was a tireless advocate for people with spinal cord injury.

What we learn here in New Jersey furthers research for all people with spinal cord injury.»

Then there are stem cells, which tantalize with their myriad possibilities: allowing diabetics to throw away their insulin, growing healthy cardiac tissue after a heart attack, restoring function to people with spinal cord injury (for which the Food and Drug Administration just approved the first embryonic stem cell trial).

Dr. Zanca says proper assistance with skin care, positioning, clearing of secretions, emptying of bowel and bladder, and proper hygiene can greatly minimize health problems in people with spinal cord injury.

The nearly $ 600,000 grant will fund her three - year project to improve the quality of personal care assistance services for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) through on - line education.

Related reading: «New, non-invasive treatment improves hand and arm function in people with spinal cord injury»

CSNE members are collaborating with NeuroRecovery Technologies to develop a novel, non-invasive therapeutic approach for people with spinal cord injury.