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'Team 22' helps spinal cord injury survivors enjoy a better life

Posted on: April 12, 2019 Categorized in: News
Team 22, a Victorian charity raising funds for spinal cord injury survivors, will be officially launched tonight – Friday, April 12 – at the MCG in Melbourne during the Collingwood vs Western Bulldogs game. This is as the Victorian Wheelchair Football League returns for…
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Study discovers key role of neuronal feedback in spinal cord injury recovery

Posted on: April 11, 2019 Categorized in: Research
A study published on CellReports sheds light on how a specific type of neuronal feedback from sites below a spinal cord injury can play a crucial role in the rehabilitation process. Understanding this process in more detail can help design rehabilitation strategies…
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Brain implant could help people with severe paralysis communicate

Posted on: April 10, 2019 Categorized in: Research
A device the size of a small paperclip, created to give people with severe paralysis the ability to communicate again, has been approved for its first-in-human clinical trial, which will be at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. The Stentrode is a…
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Curcumin and resveratrol 'can help with spinal cord injury recovery,' studies show

Posted on: April 05, 2019 Categorized in: Research
Two new studies have shed light on the possible healing properties of foods containing curcumin and resveratrol for patients with spinal cord injury. Curcumin ‘can play important role in SCI recovery’, study says A new study published on Springer Link says curcumin…
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Scientists grow mini-brain in a dish that connects to spinal cord

Posted on: March 25, 2019 Categorized in: News, Research
  Scientists have grown a miniature brain in a dish that linked up to a mouse’s spinal cord and surrounding muscles – an advance that promises to accelerate the study of injury or degeneration of axon tracts, such as spinal…
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Spinal cord stimulation study gives paralysed patients hopes for voluntary movement

Posted on: March 25, 2019 Categorized in: News, Research
University of Minnesota researchers are aiming to treat 100 volunteers with epidural stimulators in their E-STAND clinical trial. They recently published early results of the first two patients. And it’s good news for everyone with a spinal cord injury (SCI)…
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Spinal cord injury research could bring 'huge cost savings' to insurance industry

Posted on: March 13, 2019 Categorized in: News, Events, Media releases
SpinalCure Australia’s CEO Duncan Wallace has reminded the insurance sector of the huge potential for the industry arising from spinal cord injury research. Mr Wallace was addressing a luncheon hosted in Sydney’s Darling Harbour by the NSW Reinsurance Discussion Group (RDG).…
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Neurostimulation helps three paralysed people walk again

Posted on: September 25, 2018 Categorized in: Media releases
In a world first, researchers at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, have used epidural neurostimulation to help two paralysed people to walk again. The study used a combination of locomotor training and electrical stimulation to help regenerate communication between the…
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In UCLA study, magnetic stimulation of lower spine eliminates need for catheter for up to 4 weeks

Posted on: September 10, 2018 Categorized in: Research
In a study of five men whose injuries occurred five to 13 years ago, UCLA neuroscientists stimulated the lower spinal cord through the skin with a magnetic device placed at the lumbar spine. The research is the first to show…
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