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- 2011 Chicago Marathon Summary
- The Patient: The Person at the Center of My Care
- Significant SCI Research Breakthrough
- Man In Motion, A True Advocate
- College Football SCI Underscores Urgency for a Cure
- Study Shows US Health Care System Fails to Meet Needs of those with Spinal Cord Injury
- Budget Cuts Reduce Disabled Transit
- New Jersey State to Cut Spinal Cord Injury Research Funds
- Recent Study on US Health Care System Performance
- Good Article on Making Babies After SCI
SCIS Athlete Featured in Hometown Daily Newspaper
Submitted by SCIS on Sun, 10/03/2010 - 14:17The 2010 Chicago Marathon SCIS team features some compelling and inspirational stories. Trent Beachy's 26.2 mile journey is extraordinary. His story, along with SCIS, is featured in Beachy's hometown daily newspaper, The Elkhart Truth (Elkhart, Indiana).
Read The Elkhart Truth feature story on Trent Beachy and SCIS
Beachy faced overwhelming odds to get to Columbus Drive in Chicago's Grant Park on October 10th:
Beachy training in Colorado
Two years ago Trent Beachy flipped his truck into a ditch. After the medics dislodged him from the truck and rushed him to the hospital, they told him he would never walk again.
In October, Beachy will run the Chicago marathon with 45 other runners with Spinal Cord Injury Sucks.
Before the accident, Beachy's life revolved around the use of his body. He was on the wrestling team at Goshen High School, and after graduation moved to Colorado to become a firefighter. In Golden, Colo., he coached high school wrestling.
Promising High School Senior Suffers Heartbreaking SCI
Submitted by SCIS on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 14:52A tragic SCI story from "The Dallas Morning News" (10/1/10):
Just a week ago, Diondre Preston was named Molina High School's homecoming king and had everything going for him as the football team's starting quarterback and a highly sought-after recruit.
In a flash Thursday night, Preston's life changed dramatically when the senior suffered a severe spinal-cord injury in a helmet-to-helmet hit that left him motionless.
Molina football coach Charles DeVille said Preston, 17, has experienced no feeling or movement from the neck down since the injury.
Preston was stabilized on the Sprague Stadium field after the injury late in the fourth quarter of Molina's 45-38 loss to Pinkston. Within minutes, Preston was rushed to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, with his mother riding in the ambulance with him. Preston remains in the intensive care unit at Baylor after undergoing surgery Friday afternoon.
"The surgery was done to relieve pressure and find out what kind of damage we're looking at and to see what the next step will be," said DeVille, who had already visited Preston four times in the hospital by Friday afternoon. "More than two vertebrae are damaged, but we won't know for a few days the extent of the injury, and he'll be in ICU for a while."
Severe spinal-cord injuries are becoming all too common in North Texas. On Oct. 1, 2009 – almost a year ago to the day of Preston's injury – another DISD football player was severely injured. Pinkston freshman safety Jared Williams was paralyzed from the chest down after he was hit in the neck by a North Dallas player's helmet on a tackle attempt at Pleasant Grove Stadium. In May 2009, DeSoto football player Corey Borner was paralyzed from the neck down after suffering an injury during a spring practice.
SCI Did Not Stop This Tough German
Submitted by SCIS on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 19:29Budget Cuts Reduce Disabled Transit
Submitted by Spinal Cord Inj... on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 19:59EVLiving.com: Valley Transit Service Reductions Hit Disabled Hard
In Arizona, I don't expect the 75% unemployment rate for people with spinal cord injuries who can't drive will be decreasing any time soon.
Going to work, getting an education, visiting friends and relatives and other activities could be severely cut for disabled valley residents when July transit services reductions go into effect.
New Jersey State to Cut Spinal Cord Injury Research Funds
Submitted by Spinal Cord Inj... on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 21:00Recent Study on US Health Care System Performance
Submitted by Spinal Cord Inj... on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 21:00Sometimes its easy to ignore how bad the US health care system really is. Unfortunately for those with a SCI, it is a daily reality that cannot be ignored. The worst part is how much we have to pay for the substandard care we do receive. With disabled unemployment at all time highs and most disabled people living at/below the poverty line, it is easy to understand the disturbing rankings in the graphic from the study below--last place in both "Equity" and "Long, Healthy, Productive Lives".
Good Article on Making Babies After SCI
Submitted by Spinal Cord Inj... on Sun, 06/20/2010 - 21:00PhillyBurbs.com: 'For everything I've lost, I've gained so much more':
"We have promising new treatments that would just die on the vine"
Submitted by Spinal Cord Inj... on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 21:00"The state's budget woes are being felt at the New York State Neural Stem Cell Institute, where scientists have been working to find ways to regenerate damaged spinal cords.
New York officials now want to use the funds that are collected from a surcharge on moving violation traffic fines and dedicated to research to instead help close the budget gap. Legislation establishing the Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust Fund provided that up to $8.5 million a year was to fund research into spinal cord injuries.
Sally Temple is scientific director at the stem cell institute, housed in the Cancer Research Center at the University at Albany's East Campus. Grants from the trust fund cover about 20 to 30 percent of the institute's activities.
New York Legislature Cuts Self-Funding Spinal Cord Injury Program
Submitted by Spinal Cord Inj... on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 22:00"In 1998, with the help of friends and influential people like Christopher Reeve, Richter got the state to create the Spinal Cord Injury Research Board, which distributes research grants to facilities all across the state. To fund it, the state placed a surcharge on fines for moving traffic violation.
"It’s a self-sustaining program,” Richter explained. “It was an idea I had to try to raise money, and most spinal cord injuries result from automobile and motorcycle accidents."
Update On Rodney Rogers
Submitted by SCIS on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 20:46Being a huge hoops fan, I was quite disturbed when I learned of Rodney Rodger's spinal cord injury back (http://www.scisucks.org/content/rodney-rodgers-paralyzed) in December. Chris Webber (Rodney's friend and former teammate) interviewed him and this was displayed at halftime of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals over the weekend. This was Rodney's first public appearance since his injury.
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