One woman was flown to Moscow for treatment of a spinal injury, state media reported.
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Sayers, who finished fourth at the Olympics, has struggled this year with a spinal injury.
Rock band Travis are dropping out of next month's V2002 festival because of drummer Neil Primrose's spinal injury.
Another Mid-North Coast Rugby player, Alan McCabe, suffered a serious spinal injury during a separate grand final match on Saturday.
It is devastating for those people who will have a spinal injury and may as a result of this research been cured.
The LA Times writer spent the day with one of them: a 49 year-old in a wheelchair due to a spinal injury.
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He trained as an instructor with spinal injury charity Aspire and YMCAfit.
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Diving into shallow water could result in paralysis from a spinal injury.
The MRC scientists say in humans this would be vital for spinal injury patients who had lost sexual function and bowel and bladder control.
Dr Patrick Kluger, a spinal injury expert who works at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, said the robot was one of several techniques currently being developed.
"With a spinal injury, the rule of thumb is it takes about two years to have some idea how the fullness of the recovery is, " Levine said.
This suggests that Reeve - and maybe others who have suffered spinal injury - may still be ready to pick up where they left off, should a treatment be found.
If there is any hint that the patient may have a spinal injury, it is vital that the neck cannot move around and possibly cause further permanent, or even fatal damage.
While his family was unable to pay for the extensive rehabilitation process the injury required, his older brother by seven years was attending the University of Delaware through an exchange program which happens to have a teaching hospital with one of the preeminent centers for spinal injury rehabilitation in the world.
The doctors said it wasn't yet known if the spinal column injury had caused any paralysis.
Other studies have suggested that cannabinoids can ease chronic pain associated with conditions cancer and spinal cord injury.
Keirstead is working with human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury.
And, because of my spinal cord injury from the back breakage, I can't feel my left foot so good either.
It is an attempt to show the cells and the growth factors they release can help patients with spinal cord injury.
Geron's treatment for spinal cord injury was the first human embryonic stem cell therapy to receive FDA approval for a clinical trial.
These injuries involve blunt trauma, bruising and compression of the spinal cord and are the most common form of human spinal cord injury.
Prof Courtine said he was optimistic patient trials would begin in "a year or two" at Balgrist University Hospital Spinal Cord Injury Centre in Zurich.
The lead company developing the cells as treatments, Geron, just recently started the very first trial of embryonic stem cells in humans, to treat spinal cord injury.
In my TV report we showed rats unable to climb a metal ladder after one of their front paws had been paralysed to mimic a spinal cord injury.
The trials will involve eight to 10 patients who are completely paralyzed below the third to tenth vertebra, and who sustained their spinal cord injury within seven to 14 days.
The concert will mark the conductor's much-anticipated return to the podium after suffering from a spinal cord injury that left the lower half of his body without feeling or movement.
"The bias has been that people with spinal cord injury don't walk, but a lot of the patients with some movement do" says UCLA neurologist Bruce Dobkin, who led the study.
The work paves the way for stem cells that particularly match the genes of injured patients to be used to treat ailments ranging from diabetes to paralysis due to spinal cord injury.
He has received funding for his lab from Geron, which has an exclusive license of Keirstead's patents and aims to start human trials on spinal cord injury as soon as next year.
And Geron of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.
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