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Clinical trial: Lyrica's effect on nerve pain from spinal cord injury
October 02, 2008
Expert & Community Posts
A Little Known Documentary: The Accidental Advocate
By Ann Bartlett , Health Expert...California, Irvine Associate Professor, Reed-Irvine Spinal Cord Injury Research Center. ... Read more »
"Handicapped People Steal Shower Chairs"
By Mandy Crest , Health Expert...man who is confined to a wheelchair as a result of spinal cord injury, and it has profoundly... Read more »
Cleaning up the System to Afford Care for Chronic Conditions
By Nancy Muller , Health Expert...such as multiple sclerosis and conditions such as spinal cord injury. Highly sophisticated... Read more »
The Campaign Trail: Who's Talking About Caregivers?
By Suzanne Mintz , Health Expert...are family caregivers. Dad's Alzheimer's, Mike's spinal cord injury, Julie's MS don't have... Read more »
Innovating for Continence: Simon Foundation Conference
By Jasmine Schmidt , Health Expert...conditions. One woman who also uses a wheelchair due to spinal cord injury relies on a catheter... Read more »
Health Guide
Meet Dr. Mitchell Tepper
...Pennsylvania. In addition to academic credentials, Dr. Tepper, who grew up with Crohn's Disease and acquired a spinal cord injury at age 20, brings a lifetime of first-hand experience with chronic... Read more »Add an Acquired Disability
...Interludes: A Sensuous Lovers Guide. Larkspur, CA: Secret Garden. Tepper, M. S. (1992). Sexual education in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: Current trends and recommendations. Sexuality and... Read more »Spinal Stenosis: What is it?
Damage to the spinal cord, an information superhighway that originates in the brain, is a very devastating injury that can lead to paralysis. Most people have heard of traumatic spinal cord injuries... Read more »Treatment
...extensive curriculum that was developed with the support of a grant from the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Spinal Cord Injury Education and Training Foundation (Tepper, 1994). Read other... Read more »Erectile Dysfunction and Disability
My fiancee is a paraplegic. He has a c-7 spinal cord injury. We both want children, but we aren't sure if he can have children. I wanted to know if there is anyway to find out if he is able to... Read more »Images
Medications
Baclofen is used to treat muscle tightness and cramping (spasms) caused by certain conditions... Read more »
Related News
Spine Surgery: Timing Matters!
May 05, 2008TORONTO, Canada (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) About 300,000 Americans are in wheelchairs due to spinal cord injuries. Many patients will recover at least... Read summary »
Reversing Paralysis
September 04, 2006WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- A fraction of a second is sometimes all the time it takes for your life to change forever.... Read summary »
Spine Injury Breakthroughs: Hope for Injured NFL Athlete
May 21, 2008By Vivian Richardson, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Within minutes of the hit that left Buffalo Bills tight... Read summary »
Medicine's Next Big Thing: Better Blood (Part 1 of 3)
May 05, 2008ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- We're in a world of test-tube babies, artificial hearts, and even cloned animals. But when it comes to... Read summary »
Lyrica may ease pain from spinal-cord injuries
October 02, 2008A new study in Australia suggests that Lyrica may help ease the pain of patients with spinal-cord injuries. Researchers found that Lyrica was... Read summary »
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