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Tag Archives: spinal cord injury
National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month – Start with the Basics
September has been designated National Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Awareness Month, thanks to a Senate resolution, and throughout the month we’ll highlight research and resources from the NIDILRR SCI community. The NIDILRR-funded National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center estimates there … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for August 2018
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: Does chronic pain affect a person’s mental health and are there strategies to help deal with both? This edition … Continue reading
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Tagged Answered Questions, chronic pain, disability, electrical stimulation, low back pain, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, pain, people with disabilities, psychological care, Research In Focus, SCI, Spanish, Spanish-language, spinal cord injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury, veterans
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ASIA Inaugural Fellows Include Eleven NIDILRR-Funded SCI Researchers
The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) recently awarded the first group of Fellows. Eight of the sixteen fellows are current or former principal investigators (PIs) of NIDILRR-funded research projects in spinal cord injury, including the Model Spinal Cord Injury System … Continue reading
Spinal Cord Injury – Looking Back and Looking Forward
In honor of National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month, NARIC Director Mark Odum shares his insight on the past and future of spinal cord injury. More than 40 years ago I broke my neck diving into and hitting my head … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for May 2017
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. NIDILRR-funded Research: Aquatic exercise therapy for people with Parkinson disease: A randomized controlled trial (J75815) (English). This article describes a study that evaluated … Continue reading
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Tagged acquired brain injury, aquatherapy, aquatic exercise, aquatic therapy, assistive technology, cerebral palsy, children, education, employment, Halliwick Method, hydrotherapy, ms, multiple sclerosis, NIDILRR, osteoarthritis, Parkinson disease, physical therapy, Recreational therapy, rehabilitation, SCI, special eduacation, spinal cord injury, TBI
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Is there a difference between recreational therapy and activity programs?
Recently, we wrote about recreational therapy. However, if you have visited a long-term care center or similar facility, you may have heard of their activity program. You might be wondering: Are activity programs the same as recreational therapy? There are … Continue reading
Chronic pain and disability: Pain Awareness Month
The American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA) defines chronic pain as “ongoing or recurrent pain, lasting beyond the usual course of acute illness or injury or more than 3 to 6 months, and which adversely affects the individual’s well-being.” In other … Continue reading
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Tagged #ChronicPain, ACPA, Burn Injury, chronic pain, Chronic Pain Awareness Month, Disabilities, disability, MSKTC, NARIC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, pain, people with disabilities, physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, research, SCI, spinal cord injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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ACL and NIDILRR designate 14 new SCI Model System Centers
As part of their celebration of National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) announced the designation of 14 new Spinal Cord Injury Model System Centers across the US: September is National Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) … Continue reading
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Tagged ACL, model system centers, NIDILRR, research, spinal cord injury
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It’s Almost National SCI Awareness Month and We’re Celebrating with Even More Research!
This was one of our most popular posts for 2015 and now we’ve UPDATED IT for 2016 (including international research)! In addition to these selections, we’ll be sharing a host of ready-to-use resources from the NIDILRR community and elsewhere. Follow … Continue reading
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Tagged National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month, NIDILRR, research, SCI, SCI Model Systems, spinal cord injury
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for April 2016
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged employment, MSKTC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, rehabilitation, RERC, SCI, sexuality, spinal cord injury, technology
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