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Unique rehabilitation hospital offers patients their best chance at getting their lives back
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (Deseret.com) - Ohlen Sugihara grew up cliff jumping off the shores of the Big Island of Hawaii. He's no stranger to the dangers of large bodies of water. On July 1, however, he took a ride on a rope swing into the Pineview Reservoir and landed...
Implanted Neural Stem Cell Grafts Show Functionality in Spinal Cord Injuries
SAN DIEGO, CA (UCSan Diego Health) - Using stem cells to restore lost functions due to spinal cord injury (SCI) has long been an ambition of scientist and doctors. Nearly 18,000 people in the United States suffer SCIs each year, with another 294,000 persons living...
Help the 143,000 Out-of-Work Angelenos With Disabilities
LOS ANGELES, CA (PRNewswire) - Angelenos with disabilities have a powerful new toolkit to help them prepare for and find new jobs and great careers.
Ultra-low power brain implants find meaningful signal in grey matter noise
ANN ARBOR, MI (news.umich.edu) - By tuning into a subset of brain waves, University of Michigan researchers have dramatically reduced the power requirements of neural interfaces while improving their accuracy - a discovery that could lead to long-lasting brain...
COVID NEWS: Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Donates Nearly $10M in Crisis Funding to Spinal Cord Injury Communities and Critical Research
ENCINO, CA, July 23, 2020 (PRNewswire.com) - Today, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, the largest private funder of spinal cord injury research, education, clinical training and programmatic support in the U.S and Canada, announced that it has allocated close to $10...
A new level of mask innovation
CHAMPAIGN, iL (Smilepolitely.com) - Mask wearing while we go out and about in the community has become a way of life here in C-U, and probably will be for awhile as evidence continues to show it's effectiveness in slowing the spread of COVID-19. Over the past few...
Sports Apparel Doesn’t Always Fit Wheelchair Athletes. This Designer Wants to Change That
EASTON, PA (Runnersworld.com) - In an effort to make the country's fastest runners even faster, Team USA's running uniforms for the 2016 Rio Olympics featured a detail called AeroBlades - small triangles raised off the clothing, which were designed to better channel...
Disability Justice and Inclusion Advocates Invited to Apply to the DIF Grantmaking Committee
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (Borealisphilanthropy.org) - Dear Disability Inclusion Fund community, We're excited to announce a call for applications to join the inaugural Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) Advocate Grantmaking Committee. The DIF Grantmaking Committee will have equal...
Neilsen Foundation Taps United Spinal for COVID Relief
KEW GARDENS, NY (Unitedspinal.org) - During the devastating hurricane season of 2017, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation partnered with United Spinal Association to get relief to those in Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida and other gulf states who desperately needed it.
National Wheelchair Softball Association
OMAHA, NE (Usawheelchairsoftball.org) - Learn how to play the game! This educational video SERIES about a few basic individual and team practice drills used in wheelchair softball. The National Wheelchair Softball Association (NWSA) financed this video through a grant...