A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), UCLA and the San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience that they had partial success in restoring damaged nerve connections in lab rats. This was based on earlier research in which scientists discovered a method to regenerate axons…. Read More
Would You Turn Blue for Reduced Spinal Cord Injury Complications?
Researchers from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York have discovered that injecting large amounts of the food dye Blue Dye No. 1 into rats shortly after spinal injuries reduces the chances for paralysis and other spinal injury complications. There is a catch, however; the injection of the dye made the rats turn blue…. Read More
Medical Tourism – A Smart Shortcut?
Medical tourism, a term created by travel agencies and mass media outlets to describe the process of traveling across international borders to receive health care offers spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients a global buffet of treatment options, usually at a fraction of the cost of similar treatments in the United States…. Read More
Cognitive Therapy Helps Rehabilitate Injured Brains
Recent advances in the treatment and therapy for traumatic brain injury (TBI) hold promising results for the 1.4 million in the U.S. with TBIs. Researchers hope to make cognitive therapy more available to patients who have suffered brain injuries from car and playground accidents, domestic violence, war injuries, and even simple falls. Much of the… Read More
Researchers Are Closer to Preventing Brain Injury Related Epilepsy
A new study published in the July 15 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience reported that researchers from UC Berkeley, California (UCB) and Ben Gurion University (BGU) discovered a treatment to prevent the development of post brain-damage epilepsy in rats. The team of researchers built their hypothesis on earlier award winning studies, performed by Alon… Read More
HVI is Found to Effectively Treat Spinal Cord Injuries
Doctors from the University of Washington in Seattle recently reviewed recovery and follow up data on 342 patients treated for spinal cord injury with halo vest immobilization (HVI). They found that although complications were relatively high, as many as 35 percent of patients experienced difficulties such as pneumonia with the HVI, the treatment proved effective… Read More