Thursday 29 January 2015

All the clinimetrics tools you need!



A very useful list with all the clinimetrics tools you need for your assessment. It is in Dutch, but you will understand it..!

I have also created one different one here in English.

Saturday 17 January 2015

A tiny, flexible gold-plated device may be the key to restoring paralyzed humans’ spinal functions



EPFL researcher's neural implant can make paralyzed rats walk again. Soft and stretchable, it is the first of its kind that can be implanted directly on the spinal chord, without damaging it. Described in Science, this new generation device called e-Dura combines electrical and chemical stimulation.

One of the health conditions modern medicine has yet to fix is paralysis in patients who have experienced accidents affecting their spinal cords. But, CNET reports, researchers from Switzerland have already come up with a tiny, flexible, gold-plated device that can be implanted in patients to restore spinal cord functionality and allow paralyzed patients to walk again. [...]

Sunday 4 January 2015

SPINALpedia



SPINALpedia is a social mentoring network and video archive that allows the spinal cord injury community to motivate each other with the knowledge and triumphs gained from our individual experiences.