Spinal cord injury

...athletes with physical disabilities such as dwarfism, amputation or limb loss, blindness or visual impairment, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, brain injury and those who use wheelchairs. Miramar's Super-X Mondo track, made of...

In this article: Rio de Janeiro, Amputation, Cerebral palsy, Dwarfism, U.S. Olympic Committee, Ato Boldon, Olympic Committee, and The Miami Herald

...spasms. About Spasticity Spasticity is a debilitating condition that is associated with some common neurological disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, stroke and cerebral palsy, as well as spinal cord injury. Spasticity is a condition in...

In this article: Baclofen, Food and Drug Administration, GlaxoSmithKline, Insomnia, Tizanidine, Cerebral palsy, Restless legs syndrome, Parkinson's disease, and Multiple sclerosis

...by damage to developing oligodendrocytes in the brain areas around the cerebral ventricles. Spinal cord injury also causes damage to oligodendrocytes. In cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, stroke and possibly multiple sclerosis,...

In this article: Bipolar disorder, Cerebral palsy, Multiple sclerosis, Capacitance, Chondroitin sulfate, Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, and Periventricular leukomalacia

...with physical disabilities. An April 2009 survey by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation found that nearly 1.3 million people in the United States suffer from some form of paralysis caused by spinal cord injury. When other causes of...

In this article: Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, PLoS Biology, E mail, Cerebral palsy, Paralysis, Multiple sclerosis, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and University of California, Berkeley

...but in theory within those affected by other conditions involving loss of myelin, such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury. However, he said: "The work is still a long way from being applied in humans, and the...

In this article: Multiple sclerosis, Trademark, Cerebral palsy, Adrenoleukodystrophy, Leukodystrophy, and University College London

Based on this coding decision, Medicare carriers have issued billing instructions stating formally that the NESS L300 from Bioness will be covered for spinal cord injury patients with specific diagnosis codes who meet certain criteria.

In this article: Medicare, Foot drop, Trademark, United States, Multiple sclerosis, Traumatic brain injury, Stroke, and Cerebral palsy

...consider the treatment for her son. The clinic is run by a firm called Beike Biotech which offers to treat conditions such as spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis using stem cells. On its website it claims the majority...

In this article: Katie Price, China, Cerebral palsy, Multiple sclerosis, and Septo-optic dysplasia

...medicine and rehabilitation at Rush. "It is often present in patients who have suffered a stroke, traumatic brain injury, incomplete spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy." The device has proved beneficial not only...

In this article: Stroke, Rush University, Foot drop, Rush University Medical Center, Cerebral palsy, Cancer, Arthritis, Paralysis, and Multiple sclerosis

AndreV writes "After 30 years of development, a device developed at Simon Fraser University that assists people who have paralysis in one leg to walk will soon be on the market in Europe and, eventually, in the US and Canada. The...

In this article: Paralysis, Simon Fraser University, Europe, Canada, Neal Stephenson, US, Cerebral palsy, and Multiple sclerosis