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News items on 'Spinal Injury'
Spinal advance gets rats running
(BBC 21/09/2009)
Hopes that people with spinal injuries could one day regain leg movement have been raised by research in rats. US, Russian and Swiss scientists used drugs and electrical stimulation to train the animals, whose spinal cords had been cut, to run on a treadmill. Their movement was "almost indistinguishable" from normal steps, they said. But the report, published in Nature Neuroscience, stressed the movement was not directly controlled by the mind.
'Head sever' boy is back racing
(BBC 03/08/2009)
A Hampshire boy who survived a racing crash which almost severed his head from his neck is back behind the wheel. Chris Stewart was 12 when his head was left attached to his body by only skin and muscle after the accident. He had metal pins put into his body. It took nine months for Chris, now 14 and from Fareham, to learn to speak, eat and walk again and doctors have now said he can get back behind the wheel. He is thought to be one of just six people to survive a "hangman's injury".
Major Phil Packer: 'I don't want to let other people down'
(Telegraph 10/06/2009)
Major Phil Packer's life changed in an instant. Following a rocket attack in Basra last year, which sent him into somersaults underneath a runaway 4X4 and left him paralysed from the waist down, that much was inevitable. What was not inevitable, but has changed his life for a second time, was what he has done since. It started with a simple decision, made just two months after he was injured: to take part in the London Marathon.
Harry Potter stuntman 'paralysed' after explosion on set
(Daily Mail 30/01/2009)
Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double has suffered serious spinal injuries on the set of the latest Harry Potter film. David Holmes was rehearsing a flying scene involving an explosion when he plummeted to the ground. He remained conscious but told crew members: "can't feel my legs." He was taken to hospital as fears grew that he had suffered a paralysing back injury.
Lab boost for spinal injury rehab
(BBC 15/07/2008)
A chemical used by bacteria to invade other cells may aid rehabilitation from spinal and brain injury, research suggests [Based on early experiments in rats].
'I feel stupid'
(BBC 17/06/2008)
Remorse of a man paralysed after tombstoning
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