Spinal Cord Injury

Therapy & Exercise

Brain-Controlled Robots Helps People Learn To Walk Again

Brain-Controlled Robots Helps People Learn To Walk Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=127&v=NrwKuRVOfBw   JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A new robotic treatment device helping people with spinal cord injuries learn how to walk again can only be found in one place in the United States: Brooks Rehabilitation in...

Pump On Wheels with Ruth Kroes

Starting March 2017 every third Saturday of the month we will be having Pump On Wheels with Ruth Kroes at our facility in colon.  A 45 minute fitness session specially for people in wheelchair.     https://youtu.be/8Cbzu027_dw

Breakthrough Therapy

Breakthrough Therapy

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress —moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, an international team of life scientists reports today in the medical journal Brain. Read more

Project Walk

Project Walk

Traditionally, paralysis rehabilitation and more specifically spinal cord injury rehabilitation has focused on compensation. The thought was that the human nervous system could not reorganize and improve function below the level of injury. Recent research in such...