Rerouting Working Nerves To Restore Hand Function 
NPR
A paralyzed man with a spinal cord injury to the C7 vertebrae is able to move his fingers again. Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine rerouted working nerves in the patient's upper arms to restore some hand function.
After spine trauma, nerve detour revives hand Futurity: Research News
Surgery Returns Hand's Function After Spinal Cord Injury RedOrbit
'Nerve bypass' helps paralysed man move arm Halifax Evening Courier
Science Daily (press release)  -WebMD  -Stuff.co.nz 
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StemCells, Inc. Reports Positive Interim Safety Data From Spinal Cord Injury Trial 
MarketWatch (press release)
NEWARK, Calif., May 17, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) today announced completion of the first planned interim safety review of the Company's Phase I/II spinal cord injury clinical trial, which indicated that the ...
Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury: Some Patients Have Long-Term Improvement Newswise (press release)
Stem Cell Transplant Patients Show Long Term Improvement LiveScience.com
StemCells (STEM) Positive Interim Safety Data from Spinal Cord Injury Trial Proactive Investors USA & Canada

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Quadriplegic Moves Fingers After Nerve-Stealing Surgery 
ABC News
The man, whose name has not been released, crushed his spinal cord at the C7 vertebrae in the base of his neck in a 2008 motor vehicle accident. The injury severed the nerve circuits that would send signals from his brain to the muscles in his hands, ...
Doctors Restore Some Hand Function to Patient With Spinal Cord Injury Daily Disruption
Nerve transfers restore hand function after cervical spinal cord injury EurekAlert (press release)
Doctors Restore Some Hand Function to Quadriplegic Patient U.S. News & World Report
Doctors Lounge 
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Life after spinal cord injury 
East Orlando Sun
By Michael Macias Project Walk Orlando is helping Michael Macias recover from his spinal cord injury though an exercise-based regimen. Very few times do events come along in our lives that truly make a change. It's an action or circumstance that ends ...
Pannone LLP | Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day Linex Legal (press release) (registration)

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Criticism is well below the belt - Sykes 
SuperSport.com
Lascorz, who suffered spinal injuries in a crash during testing at Imola last month, was recently transferred to the Guttman Institute, which specialises in rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries. "Joan has sensitivity and mobility in his arms and ...

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Partnership Gives Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries Better Access to FES ... 
Physical Therapy Products
The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Centre (Northern Alberta) Society (SCITCS), Edmonton, recently entered into a partnership that can allow individuals with spinal cord injuries and reduced ...
Spinal patients find freedom St. Albert Leader

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UMDNJ symposium heralds advances in treating spinal cord injuries 
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
And scientists are working on protein therapy that would keep a bad injury from becoming catastrophic . These were just some of the advances in treating spinal cord injuries that were heralded at a symposium Wednesday at the University of Medicine and ...

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Pharmaceutical research into spinal cord injuries will stretch into next decade 
New Zealand Doctor Online
Drugs under development to treat those affected by acute spinal cord injuries are not expected to emerge within the current decade, leaving the market largely open to new entrants, according to a new report issued by pharmaceuticals intelligence ...

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East Tennesseans come through with donations for Little Miss Wheelchair TN 
WBIR-TV
The project specializes in spinal cord injuries and recoveries. Volunteers and organizers held a fundraiser Saturday to help a 10-year old girl regain the ability to walk. The fundraiser was for Sarah Perez who recently won "Little Miss Wheelchair ...

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InVivo Therapeutics' CEO Frank Reynolds Scheduled to Appear on Austin News ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
(otc/bb:NVIV), a developer of groundbreaking technologies for the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI), today announced that CEO Frank Reynolds is scheduled to appear on KXAN-TV's Austin News Today Weekend on Saturday, May 19th at 7:20am CDT in ...

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