Spinal Cord Trauma

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 We've got spirit, how bout you?

She still doesn’t know quite what went wrong, but she didn’t make it all the way around; she smacked her neck against the ground, skidding so hard that a piece of her blond ponytail ripped from her scalp. No one in the room realized how grave her injury was.

National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center

The UAB Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to operate the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC). NSCISC supports and directs the collection, management and analysis of the world's largest and longest spinal cord injury research database.

Spinal Cord Injury & Disorders

The VA’s Spinal Cord Injury & Disorders (SCI&D) system of care provides a coordinated life-long continuum of services for eligible veterans with spinal cord injury. This website is intended for veterans with spinal cord injury and disorder, their family members, and others.

Spinal Cord Injury Network International

Our mission is to assist spinal cord injured individuals and their families reach the best possible care. We strive to educate medical professionals and others about caring for spinal cord injuries. Through a grant from the Paralyzed Veterans of America, we have a established a large media library on educational topics relating to spinal cord injury and disability.

Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Evidence

SCIRE is a synthesis of the research evidence underlying rehabilitation interventions to improve the health of people living with SCI. The products of SCIRE result from the combined efforts of expert scientists, clinicians, consumers and stakeholders to increase the accessibility of quality information in SCI rehabilitation.

Spinal Injuries Association

We are the national organisation of spinal cord injured people. We represent all of their interests, regardless of how the impairment occurred, or whether paralysis is full or partial. We support all those who are affected by spinal cord injury, including the family and friends of the individual.

Spinal Research

Spinal Research is the UK’s leading charity funding medical research around the world to develop reliable treatments for paralysis caused by a broken back or neck.

SpinalCord.com

SpinalCord.com has been created by Swope, Rodante, P.A. as a resource for patients of brain and spinal cord injuries and their families. Learn more about a new injury, locate a doctor or treatment center, or discover legal and financial relief to support you through this difficult time.

SpinalCure Australia

SpinalCure Australia was founded in 1994 with the sole aim of finding a cure for spinal cord injury through the promotion and funding of medical research. Twenty years ago many still believed that cure to be an impossible dream. The advances resulting from two decades of research have brought us to a time when a solution to this devastating condition is accepted as inevitable.

SpinalInjury101.org

What you should know about spinal cord injury and recovery.

The Spinal Post

Your one time stop for spinal cord injury news, entertainment, and discussion.

Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

TSCIR is an essential resource for the entire SCI care team, including physiatrists, PTs, OTs, rehabilitation nurses, psychologists, neurologists, orthopedists, and many other team members. Each issue focuses on research papers that keep you up-to-date with the latest clinical developments, and an in-depth review of a single key topic.

United Spinal Association

United Spinal Association’s mission is to improve the quality of life of all people living with spinal cord injuries and disorders (SCI/D). We believe no person should be excluded from opportunity on the basis of their disability.

Wings for Life

Wings for Life organises international conferences every year to bring together leaders in research and medicine. The foundation also ensures that the scientists we fund publish the conclusions of their projects. These research findings appear in renowned journals and prevents replication of the same studies across the globe.

BrainandSpinalCord.org

We've helped brain and spinal cord injury survivors and their families recover millions for care and treatment.

elearnSCI.org

The mission of eLearnSCI.org is to improve the quality of lives of people living with spinal cord injury by disseminating awareness about spinal cord injury prevention and comprehensive management globally.

Embracing Your Space

Spinal cord injury changes life for you and your family. However, you can take steps that will help you to adapt to change and use a wide array of resources in Chicago and throughout Illinois to tackle the challenges ahead.

Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center

The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) summarizes research, identifies health information needs, and develops information resources to support the Model Systems programs in meeting the needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), and burn injury. - See more at: http://www.msktc.org/about#sthash.gXdHC1Oo.dpuf

SCI Action Canada

Based at McMaster University, SCI Action Canada is an ongoing, collaborative endeavour bringing together university-based researchers, knowledge mobilization specialists, support networks, service groups and community members focused on advancing physical activity, knowledge and participation among Canadians living with spinal cord injury.

The Turtle Walks

A Blog About Spinal Cord Injuries and the Road to Recovery...My name is Peter and on December 29th, 2009 I was in a car accident that shattered two vertebrae of my spine, leaving me paralyzed below the waist. I was able to get a toe wiggling and from there I've had significant leg function return, to the point where I am now walking using only an ankle brace. I'm continuing to improve but it is always a struggle.

American Spinal Injury Association

Its mission is: to promote and establish standards of excellence for all aspects of health care of individuals with spinal cord injury from onset throughout life. to educate members, other healthcare professionals, patients and their families as well as the public on all aspects of spinal cord injury and its consequences in order to prevent injury, improve care, increase availability of services and maximize the injured individual’s potential for full participation in all areas of community life...

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

The Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy.

Craig H Neilsen Foundation

We believe in hope. We trust in science. Since Craig H Neilsen Foundation was established in 2002, we have funded programs supporting spinal cord injury (SCI) research and rehabilitation.

Ekso Bionics

Ekso Bionics uses the power of smart exoskeleton technology machines to empower people. Our therapeutic devices can help stroke patients during rehabilitation learn to walk again and provide those with spinal cord injuries the chance to stand and walk.

European Multicenter Study about Spinal Cord Injury

An internationally recognized and scientifically successful clinical spinal cord injury network.

European Spinal Cord Injury Federation

Members of ESCIF are independent national organisations with their own statutes and whose main objective is to represent people with spinal cord injury in their country.

FacingDisability.com

We asked top spinal cord injury experts to focus on the subjects that people want to know about right away. We have over 400 answers to the important questions that come up when an injury is new and at its most bewildering

International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries

ICORD (International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries) is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on spinal cord injury. Our researchers are dedicated to the development and translation of more effective strategies to promote prevention, functional recovery, and improved quality of life after SCI.

International Society for Restorative Neurology

The International Society for Restorative Neurology (ISRN) is an outcome of several generations of work in the new field of Restorative Neurology. The ISRN will provide an international collaborative network of those who have a desire to move the field forward. This collaboration will include individuals with a wide spectrum of expertise including physicians, therapists, scientists, engineers, educators and philanthropists, among others.

International Spinal Cord Society

The ISCoS shall: -Serve as an international impartial, non-political and non-profit making association whose purpose is to study all problems relating to traumatic and non-traumatic lesions of the spinal cord. This includes causes, prevention, basic and clinical research, medical and surgical management, clinical practice, education, rehabilitation and social reintegration. This society will function in close collaboration with other national and international bodies, thereby encouraging the most efficient use of available resources...

Kennedy Krieger Institute

Kennedy Krieger Institute is an internationally recognized institution dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and musculoskeletal system.

Miami Project To Cure Paralysis

The Miami Project’s Christine E. Lynn Clinical Trials Initiative is designed to take discoveries found to be successful in laboratory studies and fast track them to human studies, like our FDA approved Schwann cell transplantation trial. The Miami Project is well positioned and confident that we have the expertise, knowledge and drive to continue to navigate through the process and initiate new clinical trials.

Neil Sachse Foundation

In 1994, Neil Sachse founded an organisation to raise funds for research into the treatment of spinal cord injury. Originally known as the Spinal Research Fund of Australia Incorporated, it was renamed the Neil Sachse Foundation to honour Neil’s steadfast and dogmatic contribution to spinal cord injury research.

ReWalk

ReWalk is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) to stand upright, walk, turn, and climb and descend stairs*. ReWalk is the first exoskeleton to receive FDA clearance for personal and rehabilitation use in the United States.

Rick Hansen Foundation

The Rick Hansen Foundation unifies organizations and leaders to work in partnership towards positive change for a healthy and inclusive world, with a key focus of improving the lives of those with spinal cord injuries.

Shepherd Center

Shepherd Center specializes in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury and brain injury.

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