Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
About 11,000 Americans are hospitalized for a spinal cord injury (SCI) every year, and up to 250,000 people in the US alone live with an SCI. A paraplegic is someone whose legs and lower part of the body are paralyzed; a quadriplegic (or, more correctly, a tetraplegic) experiences muscle weakness or paralysis in all four limbs. Learn more about the most common causes of SCIs, treatment options, and recent research and advances (for example, stem cell regeneration research) in the following articles.
Marc Buoniconti, son of NFL hall of famer Nick Buoniconti, sustained a spinal cord injury while playing football.
Watch part 2 of Tiffiny's beautifying series in which she talks about all her beauty essentials and how to apply makeup as a person with a disability.
Ricci Kilgore, member of the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team, talks about how getting stem cell treatments has changed her life.
When Kevin Everett of the Buffalo Bills sustained his spinal cord injury (SCI), he was immediately immersed in freezing saline and can now walk.
Is There a Paralysis Cure? What the Miami Project is Learning
Videos
An animation demonstrating the cause and process of autonomic dysreflexia, a serious, life-threatening emergency that can affect those with SCI. It is also known as hyperreflexia.
Meet Greg Mallory: Whitewater Rafter & Paralympian
Greg Mallory tries not to take anything too seriously. When he's not hitting the slopes or practicing law, he's navigating some of the trickiest whitewater out there.
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