Our condolences goes out to Ricky Bannister’s family and friends. Ricky fractured his C5 vertebrae on the 15th April 2013 after a horse riding accident. After 1 year and 6 months of fighting severe health issues Ricky sadly passed away,…
Month: September 2014
MacArthur Lions Annual SpinalCure Golf Day 2014
The sun shone on the beautiful Camden Valley Resort golf course for this year’s SpinalCure golf day. The morning’s 4-person Ambrose competition was punctuated by the crack of another ball hammered down the fairway by Australian long drive champion Mark…
Prof Grégoire Courtine's electrical stimulation work closer to clinical trials
EPFL scientists have discovered how to control the limbs of a completely paralyzed rat in real time to help it walk again. Building on earlier work in rats, this new announcement is part of a more general therapy that could…
New gel-like padding could help cells survive injection and heal spinal cord injuries
A team of scientists at Stanford University, California is developing a gel to help protect cells from the trauma of being injected into an injury site. The work could help speed cell-based therapies for spinal cord injuries and other types…
Israeli scientists develop new way of creating pluripotent stem cells
A team of Israeli researchers has developed a new cocktail of reprogramming factors that is highly effective at coaxing adult cells to become quality induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In a paper published in Cell Stem Cell the scientists report…
Commentary on electrical stimulation for SCI
Drs. NarihitoNagoshi and Michael G Fehlings discuss the exciting research using epidural electrical stimulation to treat spinal cord injury with particular reference to the work presented by Angeli and colleagues in a current issue of Brain. Read more…
People with paralysis explore therapeutic effects of scuba diving
Scuba diving is showing great benefit for people with spinal cord injures. Reduced spasm, increased sensitivity and increased mobility are just some of the benefits experienced. The researchers speculate that the physical improvements may have something to do with an interaction…
Spasm research may lead to new treatments for SCI
Research reveals that a group of cells in the spinal cord start supplying serotonin in an uncontrolled way after an injury, which may “knock” the motor system out of control. A Science Daily news report notes that the enzyme aromatic L-amino…
Modulation of CSPG receptor promotes locomotor and urinary recovery (video)
Dr. Silver presents findings from his lab’s discovery that peptide modulation of the CSPG receptor PTP allowed for remarkable recovery of hindlimb function, locomotor activity, and bladder control in 17 of 20 animals. Thanks to Unite 2 Fight Paralysis
Transplanted stem cells help prevent bladder fibrosis after spinal cord injury
A team of researchers from Korea and Canada have found that transplantation of B10 cells (a stable immortalized human bone marrow derived –mesenchymal stem cell line; B10 hMSC) directly into the bladder wall of mice modeled with spinal cord injury…