Researchers find osmotic therapy device for spinal cord injuries
A team of researchers has now provided an osmotic therapy device that gently removes fluid from the spinal cord to reduce swelling in injured rats with good results.
Aug 14, 2020, 01:41 AM IST
Spinal cord can now be repaired with silk
There is no cure for serious spinal cord trauma, in part because spinal nerves are unable to cross the scar tissue barrier and the cavity that forms in the cord after the injury.
Oct 27, 2017, 11:43 AM IST
Having spinal cord injury? This is how to deal with infections
The findings indicated that spinal cord injury causes the immune system to become "paralysed" and thus, less able to fight off infections such as pneumonia.
Sep 24, 2017, 15:35 PM IST
Lower-limb wearing robot to help paralytic patients move
Researchers from Beihang University in China and Aalborg University in Denmark developed the wearable robot to greatly improve patients' comfort and willingness to wear it for gait rehabilitation.
Oct 26, 2016, 12:02 PM IST
Probiotics could aid recovery from spinal cord injury
The researchers found that spinal cord injury significantly altered the gut microbiome of mice, inducing the migration of gut bacteria into other tissues of the body and the activation of proinflammatory immune cells associated with the gut.
Oct 18, 2016, 16:39 PM IST
Brain control helps paralysed man walk again
In a world's first such experiment, scientists have used non-invasive direct brain control system to get a person - with complete paralysis in both legs owing to spinal cord injury - to walk again.
Sep 24, 2015, 13:09 PM IST
