Monday September 15, 2014 PAR-QoL Receives New Funding from the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Education Foundation / PAR-QoL reçoit un nouveau financement de la part de la PVA Welcome back! We hope you all have had a good summer. The PAR-QoL Team is pleased to announce that we have received additional funding from [...]
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Dec 02, 2013 A virtual therapeutic sailing simulator is an important part of the injury rehabilitation process after damaging the spinal cord, suggests research from the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Boston. According to the study, participants used a hands on virtual simulator for 12 weeks, designed to help them learn how to sail safely. Read [...]
Evaluation of the PAR-QoL Website - Stay Tuned for a Request for Feedback Welcome to the last PAR-QoL Newsletter of 2013! It has been an exciting year for the PAR-QoL Project. Our site is averaging approximately 5,000 visitors per month from across the world, and incorporated this newsletter feature this past year to bring [...]
As 2013 comes to close, the PAR-QoL team would like to thank all of our visitors for your interest in our site, and your continued support. Since starting in 2011, the number of visitors have grown from a few hundred to over 5,000 a month, and we are gaining traction at the international level. In addition to [...]
Dec 05, 2013 An experimental device is letting paralysed people drive wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the right direction. Key to this wireless system: Users get their tongue pierced with a magnetic stud that resembles jewellery and acts like a joystick, in hopes of offering them more mobility and independence. Read the [...]
Dr. Brett Smith The PAR-QoL team held an expert spotlight event with Dr. Brett Smith from Loughborough University, UK. Between October 11 and November 11 (2013), visitors to the PAR-QoL website submitted a question to Dr. Smith to obtain his thoughts about spinal cord injury (SCI) and quality of life research (or other related research). Selected [...]
The Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Evidence (SCIRE) project has just launched version 4 of its outcome measures section. SCIRE is a synthesis of the research evidence underlying rehabilitation interventions to improve the health of people living with SCI. The products of SCIRE result from the combined efforts of expert scientists, clinicians, consumers and stakeholders to increase the [...]
Nov 22, 2013 A device that could one day restore bladder function to patients with a severed spinal cord has been devised by UK researchers and tested in animals. To read more, click here.
Nov 2, 2013 Locomotor therapies re-create and repeat the pattern of walking to train the spinal cord in functions formerly controlled by the brain. Locomotor therapies re-create and repeat the pattern of walking to train the spinal cord in functions formerly controlled from the brain. More than 600 patients have trained in the system, [...]