[misc.handicap] Recent improvements

Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain) (03/29/91)

Index Number: 14580

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

 BA> I am spinal cord injured (Quad). The injury is high up C2-3.
 BA> Has any one done anything lately in the area or cord regeneration or
 BA> repair. I find it had to understand why some group doing spinal injury
 BA> research has not begun to discover or develop methods or treatments
 BA> to fix the cord injurys! Please let me know if you have any info. I am

 BA> getting really tired of this G-D wheelchair!

        Why not ask Dr. Shea that question?

        I asked those same questions 30 years ago and am still
asking them.  Sometime in the near future.

        The Miami Project at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami
appears to have the best U.S. research underway at the time.

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