Tag: spinal
Thom learns to live and play sports with a spinal cord injury: ‘Paralympic Games are a great motivation’
Today Thom is doing ball exercises in the gym with sports therapist Amber. The idea is that by catching and throwing the ball from different angles, he will become more…
Asllani: "Sits in the spinal cord"
The fixed situations – i.e. free kicks and corners – are an important attacking weapon for Sweden. Switzerland knew that. But what did it help. When Sweden received a free…
Ellen suffered a spinal cord injury from an appended motorist: ‘The penalties are much too low’
Hundreds of victims per year due to apping road users About 600 Dutch people a year are hit by road users who are on their phones. This has been calculated…
Tijs (17) sustained a spinal cord injury during a dive: ‘When you come out of your coma, you don’t feel like anything’
It’s lunch time. The children in the department of rehabilitation center De Hoogstraat in Utrecht gather in the living room with their supervisors. Tijs also enters the room and joins…
Spinal cord cancer: causes, symptoms, prognosis
Spinal cord cancers or tumors are fairly rare brain cancers. Reference treatment, surgery often allows a cure. Symptoms, age, cause, life expectancy: discovery. Summary THE spinal cord cancers or tumors…
Spinal muscular atrophy: cause, types, life expectancy
Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic muscle disease that mainly affects babies and children, and rarely adults. The disease is caused by a mutation in a gene. Several forms exist…
It will revolutionize the world of science! New link found between brain and spinal cord
Physiotherapist Gülşah Konakoğlu, as a result of her research for her doctoral thesis, has obtained findings that there may be a new connection between the vagus, the longest nerve in…