Like she hasevery day for the past six weeks, Kristina Andrews spent a recent Wednesday bedridden in her room at a Dunedin nursing and rehab center. On the empty bed opposite, boxes and Tupperware ...

The Spinal Cord Injury Model System of Care Program was established via Congressional Act in 1970 to maintain and improve a cost-effective, comprehensive service delivery system for people who incur a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the expanded use of Onward Medical’s ARC-EX System, now permitting individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) to use the ...

Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) has been linked to an elevated long-term risk of developing neurologic, psychiatric, cardiovascular, and endocrine comorbidities, highlighting the need for ...

Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the nerves in their body. People who have lost the ability to walk due to spinal ...