A recent report published by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation has revealed that the numbers of people living with paralysis and spinal cord injury are far greater than previous estimates suggested. The new report, authored by a team of 60 scientists, academics, and health care professionals, sheds much needed awareness on the nearly 6… Read More
New Research on Car Accidents & Cervical Spine Injuries
Research funded by multiple prestigious scientific, industry, engineering, insurance, and business firms has allowed a team to analyze huge amounts of data on the occurrence of cervical spine injuries in children in car crashes. The researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ohio State University Medical Center studied data… Read More
Head Injuries from Boxing Lead to Nerve-cell Damage?
Science Daily reports that researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy and the Ericyes University Medical School in Turkey published a study revealing elevated levels of the protein NSE in blood samples taken from amateur boxers after a two-month break from boxing. The NSE levels were higher in the blood samples of 44 boxers than in a… Read More
New Research on Traumatic Brain Injury & Concussions
Doctors and researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University recently made novel use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in order to scan the brains of 20 concussion patients to determine once and for all whether or not concussions involve traumatic injury to the brain. The DTI scans revealed subtle brain damage… Read More
Superman’s Son Raises Money for Spinal Cord Injury Research
Matthew Reeve, the late Christopher Reeve’s son, is training for the New York Marathon. His goal? To raise money for spinal cord injury research. The Christopher and Dana Reeve’s Foundation was created after Christopher Reeve, well known as Superman in the 1978 Superman movie, was injured in a equestrian accident. His spine damaged, he became… Read More
Safety Recommendations for Concussion Prevention: A Hot Topic
Medical professionals, high school officials, parents, coaches, and student athletes in communities west of Boston, Massachusetts are working together to bring more awareness to concussions in high school sports such as hockey, football, and cheerleading. According to a Boston Globe article, late last year, the Massachusetts Association of School Committees reported that multiple concussions can… Read More