Man with spinal injury rewarded for community workRSS Feed

An Australian man has been rewarded for proving that people with spinal injuries can go on to live a happy life and can improve the lives of others.

Tiger Anderson was recently awarded Campbelltown 2010 Citizen of the Year for dedicating his life to helping those less fortunate, the Macarthur Chronicle reports.

Mr Anderson sustained a spinal injury in 2000 and was unable to return to work after the accident.

The grandfather now dedicates his time to visiting ill, frail and elderly residents in hospitals and care centres and runs errands for these people.

"I want to thank those who nominated me, even though I told them not to. Because you don't do this for reward, you do it because there are people worse off than you," Mr Anderson told the newspaper.

Scientists in Sweden may have found the answer to getting those unable to walk due to spinal injuries back on their feet.

Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet found that neurons in brainstems and spinal cords can be modified so that they can be activated by blue light, enabling a walking-like motor activity to be produced.

News brought to you by Serious Law specialists in spinal injury

Spinal injury patients could walk again thanks to therapy involving blue light

27 January 2010

Scientists in Sweden have made a discovery that has the potential to help patients to walk again after sustaining a spinal cord injury.Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet modified...

Read More...

Race horse owner sponsors Spinal Research at Cheltenham Race Festival

26 January 2010

A race horse owner is sponsoring the Spinal Research Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Race Festival on March 16th.Andy Stewart, owner of the horse Celestial Halo, has close ties with the Spinal...

Read More...

Stem cell treatment tested as potential cure for spinal injury and Alzheimer's

26 January 2010

A human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-based product currently being developed as a treatment for spinal cord injury is also to be investigated as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease.The collaboration,...

Read More...