National Spinal Cord Injury Association
a program of United Spinal Association
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The Translational Pain Research Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Massachusetts is conducting a clinical research study with the purpose of discovering new drugs to treat chronic pain in people living with spinal cord injury. If you would like to learn … [Read more...]
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS) is recruiting participants for a study titled "Spinal Cord Injury Model System Virtual Walking for Reducing Spinal Cord Injury-Related Neuropathic Pain". This study investigates a 3-D video … [Read more...]
In early-to-mid March 2013, as part of a non-clinical study, a product design firm that is developing a new treatment/product to prevent pressure ulcers would like to conduct 90-minute interviews with individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) in their private homes or … [Read more...]
The right to have kids and the ability to raise them into productive members of society is one of the fundamental assumptions of our culture. It’s natural for many of us to observe older family members and friends raising their children and give at least some thought to raising … [Read more...]
Advanced Focus--a market research company based in New York City--is currently working on a nationwide project specifically aimed at people living with spinal cord injuries or multiple sclerosis that have been diagnosed by a physician as having spasticity issues (extreme muscle … [Read more...]
Letter of Invitation Study Title: The impact of mobility assistive technology devices on participation for individuals with disabilities Dear Assistive Technology User, As students in the Occupational Therapy department at Belmont University, we (Jordan … [Read more...]
Please take part in a short survey about your access to wheelchairs and medical equipment. Your feedback will help us advocate in Washington, DC to change policies that affect your mobility and independence, such as Medicare’s bidding program. This program not only … [Read more...]
Neuroscientist Pengzhe (Paul) Lu has broken through a major set of obstacles facing SCI cure research. After years of painstaking work at the University of California, San Diego, Lu has largely reversed complete sub-acute SCI in rats with a combination of growth factors and … [Read more...]
If you’ve ever wished your doctor would prescribe you a bunch of video games instead of an exercise program, the Veterans Administration’s Spinal Cord Injury Center in Palo Alto, Calif., may be coming to your entertainment and recovery rescue. Their researchers are working … [Read more...]
The month of September was Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. There are approximately 200,000 people living with spinal cord injuries (SCI) in the United States. Every 48 seconds in our country, a person becomes paralyzed. A majority of injuries occur from motor vehicle … [Read more...]
