Spinal surgery can involve a painful recovery process – whether you’re a human or a dog. But what if a noninvasive treatment utilizing a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) could improve pain, reduce inflammation and possibly aid motor recovery? A recent…
Month: March 2018
New insight into why paraplegic rats can walk again after therapy
With the help of robot-assisted rehabilitation and electrochemical spinal cord stimulation, rats with clinically relevant spinal cord injuries regained control of their otherwise paralyzed limbs. But how do brain commands for walking, swimming and stair-climbing bypass the injury and still…
Epidural stimulation shown to normalize blood pressure following spinal cord injury
Many people with a severe spinal cord injury—especially at higher levels in the spine—have problems with blood pressure regulation. This can dramatically affect their quality of life. Researchers from Kentucky Spinal cord injury Research Center (KSCIRC) at the University of…
Mount Kosciuszko Wheelchair Summit challenge
Earlier this month, a group of inspirational children and young adults in wheelchairs joined our ambassador Sam Bloom and the unstoppable spinal cord injury survivor, Steve Plain, to take part in the Mount Kosciuszko Wheelchair Summit Challenge. The challenge was a…
Soft neural interfaces enable delivery of electrical and chemical stimulation to the spinal cord
New developments in soft neural interfaces are enabling the delivery of electrical and chemical stimulation to the spinal cord. The stimulations restored locomotion in animal models of paralysis. The soft interfaces can be placed either below or above the dura…
Asterias provides update for its AST-OPC1 Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial in severe spinal cord injury
Asterias Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing cell-based therapeutics, provided an update on how company’s ongoing Phase1/2a SCiStar designed to evaluate the safety and potential efficacy of AST-OPC1 in the treatment of severe cervical spinal cord injury. In the update, Michael…