By: Leanne Ramer and Bonita Sawatzky A wheelchair skills camp for children with SCI Mobility is an issue for most people with SCI, but one group of people that deserve special consideration is children with SCI who use wheelchairs. Depending Read More…
Yearly Archives: 2011
Restoring breathing after cervical SCI
| 2 commentsBy: Andre Fallavollita This is a summary of a paper published by a research group from Ohio, USA in the journal Nature. Original article: Alilain WJ, Horn KP, Hu H, Dick TE, Silver J. Functional regeneration of respiratory pathways after spinal cord Read More…
Regrowth of nerves in the adult spinal cord
| 0 commentsBy: Ivan Chiu This is a summary of a paper published by a research group from Massachusetts, USA in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Original article: Liu K, Lu Y, Lee JK, Samara R, Willenberg R, Sears-Kraxberger I, et al. PTEN Read More…
Functional electrical stimulation cycling in women with SCI
| 2 commentsBy: Nathan Santos This is a summary of a paper published by researchers from Vancouver, BC in The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. Original article: Ashe MC, Eng JJ, Krassioukov AV, Warburton DER, Hung C, Tawashy A. Response to functional Read More…
Sensory substitution for sexual rehab of men with chronic SCI
| 4 commentsBy: Nathan Santos This is a summary of a paper published by ICORD researchers in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. Original article: Borisoff JF, Elliott SL, Hocaloski S, Birch GE. The development of a sensory substitution system for the sexual Read More…
Epidural stimulation permits voluntary movement after complete SCI
| 0 commentsBy: Leanne Ramer This is a summary of a paper published by a research group from Kentucky, USA in the journal The Lancet. Original article: Harkema S, Gerasimenko Y, Hodes J, Burdick J, Angeli C, Chen Y, et al. Effect of Read More…
