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LLLT(LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY) FOR SPINAL CORD REGENERATION
My Son's Depression-He Doesn't Want To Live Paralyzed
- By Blondeyvonne · Posted March 17, 2009
- In Living your life · 4 recommendations
- I'm a very concerned and worried mother of my 22 year old son who has been paralyzed now 1 year as of Dec. 8th, 2008. He is paralyzed T8 down. My son has been to counseling, also has a social worker I ...
Incomplete SCI - Is sex possible?
- By jennypooh · Posted September 14, 2008
- In New paralysis/rehabilitation · 3 recommendations
- Hi there. My boyfriend was in a car accident two weeks ago today. He fractured his spine between the 6th and 7th vertebrae. He has movement in his arms. For the first week he had no feeling in his chest ...
Never, Never Give Up!
- By janders199 · Posted August 7, 2009
- In Living your life · 2 recommendations
- Good morning! I am a T-12 incomplete . . . I went to my doctor of physical medicne on Monday . . . 3 years after my spinal cord infarction at T-12 . . . and he was amazed . . . he said I was now an L-1 ...
Take This Drink Plenty Of Fluids And Pray To JESUS
- By mikey · Posted March 29, 2009
- In Living your life · 2 recommendations
- I am going to broach a topic that in everyday discourse exemplifies a complex irony. To hopefully keep your attention, I will state the irony later. I also want to say that it is not my intent to offend ...
A man Useful and Victorious
- By Italo_Violo · Posted April 28, 2008
- In Living your life · 2 recommendations
- Hello to everybody, I'm glad to be here. This is my first post but I know about Christopher Reeve and I receive letters from foundation some time ago. My name is Italo Violo and I'm from Venezuela. I ...
Men and Women of Steal
- By professirx · Posted March 25, 2008
- In Living your life · 2 recommendations
- Men and Women of Steal That steal being what our wheelchairs are made out of for many of us using them in our lives everyday. Like Kal-El, he got his steal from living on Earth and his life was changed ...
rats walking-new study ucla,zurich
- By jerry2 · Posted September 26, 2009
- In New paralysis/rehabilitation · 1 recommendation
- hi , im jerry im 37 paralysed n 07 waist down i fell two stories crushed my back in 6 places i am an incomplete.i have great upper body strenght anyways im writing cause of the new breakthru at ucla n ...
Letter To My Feet
- By mikey · Posted September 21, 2009
- In Living your life · 1 recommendation
- Dear Feet: As I involuntarily sit here at my wit's end, I am searching for some way to allay the constant discomfort that you bestow upon me. I do realize that my options are few and at this time I recognize ...
Neurontin versus Lyrica
- By Gimpa50 · Posted September 17, 2009
- In Health matters · 1 recommendation
- I am a C5 complete quadriplegic. I have been taking 2400 mg daily of Neurontin for nerve pain in my arms for 6 years since my accident. It helps some but does not eliminate the pain. I take Darvocet in ...
CAn't Be Tamed! Quad/Walk-A-Thon
- By ladybyrd043 · Posted June 30, 2009
- In Funding your care (grants, fundraising, resources) · 1 recommendation
- Thomm Morgan, the man who walks for those who can't, is going to walk for Troy Sept. 6-7 from Troy, Mo., to Troy in Pacific/Eureka. About 50 miles in 24-hrs. In conjunction with this Troy is organizing ...
Pressure wounds
- By Matt32 · Posted May 24, 2009
- In Health matters · 1 recommendation
- I've had what started as a pressure sore no bigger than the size of your pinky finger, that is until the surgeon I went to debrided it and all and made it look like a cave(ok exaggerating here) but seriously ...
Protesting the need to read
- By professirx · Posted April 8, 2009
- In Living your life · 1 recommendation
- Friends at http://www.spinalcord.org/ informed me about the threat of not giving individuals with disabilities the same equal opportunities as others when it comes to learning and having the chance of ...
New Google map for paralysis community
- By Rob_CDRF · Posted April 7, 2009
- In Living your life · 1 recommendation
- I'm the online guy for the Reeve Foundation. Just wanted to let you know we just posted a new application that lets people living with paralysis, friends and family, scientists, caregivers, and concern ...
embryo stem cell research ban finally lifted
- By MARTY_T_67 · Posted March 9, 2009
- In New paralysis/rehabilitation · 1 recommendation
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_o n_go_pr_wh/obama_stem_cells ...
You Want to Put Your Finger Where?
- By quadfatherc4 · Posted February 14, 2009
- In Living your life · 1 recommendation
- if you are quadriplegic then I'm sure you deal with a bowel program. Probably a suppository by way of a finger in your butt. For me this is a pride issue and has always bothered me very much. A couple ...
Scar Tissue
- By jaykay40 · Posted January 30, 2009
- In New paralysis/rehabilitation · 1 recommendation
- Hi, Everyone, I was injured in an MVA about 16 years ago and am a C-6 C-7 partial and T-5 complete. I am looking for some inpute from anyone with passed experiance or knowledge of my situation. About ...
I Am Not Going To Be A Good Nigga
- By mikey · Posted January 12, 2009
- In Living your life · 1 recommendation
- Reality, what is it? How far does it go as far as shaping us? These are hard questions to really answer. With some thought one could come up with some general answers that would perhaps read well in a ...
To the Newly Injured with SCI- Don't feel like you have to put on a brave f
- By tammysci · Posted December 9, 2008
- In New paralysis/rehabilitation · 1 recommendation
- A subject that I often hear from people with new spinal cord injuries is "how do you get your life back?" or "Accept your disability?"- I mentor people with new SCI- mostly women, but some men too. When ...
Vacation ups and downs
- By TraceD · Posted November 2, 2008
- In Living your life · 1 recommendation
- Wife and I just returned from 8 days in Maui at the Hyatt. My first venture out since the C4 incomplete central cord in March 2008. First 2 days felt sad that this is my new life, handicapped. Still had ...
