A University of Canterbury (UC) PhD student is carrying out world first research on spinal cord injuries using the Feldenkrais method to provide people the chance to recover movement and stability.
A University of Canterbury (UC) PhD student is carrying out world first research on spinal cord injuries using the Feldenkrais method to provide people the chance to recover movement and stability.
In the 1940s, Israeli physicist Dr Moshe Feldenkrais combined his knowledge of martial arts, biomechanics, neurophysiology, anatomy, learning theory, child development, systems theory, physics and psychology to develop the Feldenkrais Method, a form of sensory motor education.
The Wairarapa community always gives great local support when asked for help, a local charity says.
"The local community has been very supportive," Catwalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust general manager Meg Speirs said.
Figures obtained from the Charities Commission show nearly $1 billion was given to charity nationally last year in donations and bequests, down slightly from 2010. A stand-alone figure for the Wairarapa district was not available.
In a study at the University of California, San Diego and VA San Diego Healthcare, researchers were able to regenerate "an astonishing degree" of axonal growth at the site of severe spinal cord injury in rats. Their research revealed that early stage neurons have the ability to survive and extend axons to form new, functional neuronal relays across an injury site in the adult central nervous system (CNS).
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis is among 15 organizations that will share more than $1.5 million in grants awarded by NFL Charities September 11 for sports-related medical research, mostly in the area of concussion prevention and treatment.
It’s been 10 days since Tulane safety Devon Walker injured his cervical spine when he collided with a teammate as they tackled a Tulsa receiver. Surgery to stabilize the fracture followed a day later. Since then, not a word about progress. And when it comes to tragedies such as these, no news is bad news.
If Walker had some type of return of motion and/or sensation in his limbs, the news would have been trumpeted.
It was almost impossible to sneak through the Olympic rowing village four weeks ago without bumping into a Kiwi.
Black-singlet-wearing athletes and Rowing New Zealand's support staff littered the temporary compound.
Three weeks on it's an entirely different place. Now only two Kiwis call Royal Holloway home, Waikato's Danny McBride and his coach Norman Charlton, but that's just the way McBride likes it.
A paralysed woman who completed the London marathon can begin training for a 250 mile bike ride from Paris to London after a Scottish company provided a robotic bike for her.
Claire Lomas, who has no movement from the waist down following a horse riding accident, made it round the London marathon course in April in two and a half weeks, with the help of a pair of robotic legs.
She will attempt her first outdoor cycle ride later this month with a view to the Paris trip next spring.
Three weeks on it's an entirely different place. Now only two Kiwis call Royal Holloway home, Waikato's Danny McBride and his coach Norman Charlton, but that's just the way McBride likes it.