Stem Cell Technology And Spinal Cord Injury
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When a person sustains a spinal cord injury, the treatment involves giving the person considerable amount of physical therapy, occupational therapy as well as any other rehabilitation therapy that the person may require. In addition, the person is also taught to deal with his or her disability. But, with the advances that medical science is making, some private hospitals in the US, are now offering stem cell therapy to help patients with spinal cord injury. More...
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Spinal Cord Injury First Aid
As per the CDC, nearly half of the spinal injuries that occur each year in the US result from motor vehicle accidents. However, a person can also injure the spinal cord while diving into water, sustaining trauma to the neck or back, or falling. If a spinal cord injury is suspected, then a person should be given immediate first aid. Knowing how to give spinal cord injury first aid can help save a person's life, or it can prevent further damage to the spinal cord. More...
Prospects Improve For Those With Spinal Cord Injuries
Generally, when people sustain spinal cord injuries, they end up spending their lives in a wheelchair and have no hope of getting better or improving their physical state. However, this is not the case any longer. Prospects have improved for those with spinal cord injuries as research is slowly finding ways to restore movements in the affected parts of the body, and alleviate pain. More...
Physical Therapy For Spinal Cord Injuries
There are many different types of spinal cord injuries, with the most severe being a severed spinal cord. A severed spinal cords results in permanent paralysis of the entire body, or some parts of the body. On the other hand, some spinal cord injuries can result in temporary paralysis. Nonetheless, all spinal cord injuries require physical therapy, so that the person can attain mobility. More...
Rehabilitation Of Hemiplegic Spinal Cord Injury
When a person sustains a hemiplegic spinal cord injury, he or she can have partial or complete paralysis. The severity of the paralysis is determined on where the spinal cord has been injured. Generally, a hemiplegic spinal cord injury requires considerable and often ongoing rehabilitation to keep the muscle tone and function, and also to restore the damaged never cells. More...
Spinal Cord Injury And Constipation
Contraction of smooth muscles located in the gastrointestinal tract aid in moving the food from one of the tract to the other. There is some amount of evidence that even physical activity places a role in movement of food in the gastrointestinal tract. Hence, it should not come as a surprise that spinal cord injury and constipation go hand in hand. More...
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