Alexandra Carmichael, a scientist who has back pain in her family, is conducting a study onback pain through the website she co-founded, CureTogether. Specifically, she is gathering self-reported data on symptoms, treatments, and triggers for back pain. Her goal is to discover associations in this data to help characterize which treatments work best forpatients with… Read More
Boston University Furthers Combat Related Brain Injury Research
Brain researchers at Boston University and the Sports Legacy Institute in Massachusetts are conducting studies to explore potential links between brain dysfunction in combat veterans and similar cognitive decline experienced by football players. Researchers posit that combat veterans who experience symptoms of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) may have sustained severe damage to their brains, not… Read More
Spinal Cord Injury and Brain Injury Crisis in Care
In the last few months there has become a crisis in the health care industry. Watch our video now.
Can Seizures Caused by Brain Injuries be Prevented?
ScienceDaily reports new findings that may explain why acquired epilepsy is sometimes a result of a traumatic brain injury.. The study’s lead author, CU-Boulder’s psychology and neuroscience Professor Daniel Barth, believes that this new information can be used to prevent acquired epilepsy (also called adult epilepsy). The researchers found that the seizures are possible linked… Read More
Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury Rights to be Limited by General Motors Bankruptcy Court
Brain and spinal cord injuries are two common results of automobile accidents. A large number of lawsuits have been filed against General Motors by persons suffering from brain and spinal cord injuries sustained in accidents involving defective GM vehicles or parts, and many of those cases are currently pending. On June 1, 2009, GM filed… Read More
A Promising New Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries
XenoPort, Inc. announced today that they have obtained positive results from their preliminary phase two trial of arbaclofen placarbil (XP19986) for the treatment of spasticity due to a spinal cord injury (SCI). In today’s press release, XenoPort’s chief medical officer David A. Stamler said that ‘currently available medications for treating spasticity are often limited by… Read More