Articles Posted in Spinal Cord Injury

Over the years I have been amazed and inspired by the indomitable spirit of clients who are paralyzed by traumatic spinal cord injuries. One client who was a quadriplegic was determined to get back to teaching college and writing books with adaptive technology. A young woman who became paraplegic in an accident finished college, earned her…

It’s a long way from experiments with lab mice to clinical treatment of humans, and as a Georgia trial attorney in Atlanta, I only represent human spinal cord injury survivors. However, it is interesting to observe progress in animal experiments that may someday carry over to treatment of humans. According to an article published in Nature…

The word on the extended family grapevine tonight is that my wife’s cousin’s daughter, Alex McArthur, a recent Davidson College graduate, has been named Ms. Wheelchair America for the coming year. She has been in a wheelchair three years due to muscular dystrophy. Last year, one of our clients, Alyson Roth, a spinal cord injury…

If you ever suffer a major injury in metro Atlanta and are still able to talk, remember to say, “take me to Grady.”  This is important because treatment at  a Level 1 trauma center significantly improves prospects of successful outcome. A recent article on “The Effects of Trauma Center Care, Admission Volume, and Surgical Volume…

Spinal cord injury survivors may someday have more hope for functional recovery. An article in Brain by James Fawcett at Cambridge University summarizes research papers reporting functional recovery following a variety of treatments. These have included interventions that affect myelin inhibitory molecules and their receptors, or inhibitory chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans, and treatments in which the…

Survivors of spinal cord injury face life-long problems with mobility.  As an attorney representing spinal cord injury survivors, I have often addressed needs for adapted vehicles in life care plans. Now there is news of the first factory-built, wheelchair accessible car – the MV-1 – which is a milestone for the 14 million American adults…

As an Atlanta injury attorney practicing throughout Georgia with a special interest in spinal cord and traumatic brain injury cases, I was glad to see that Shepherd Center, within walking distance from my office, will host the North American Neurorehabilitation Symposium on August 27 and 28, 2010. The program is designed primarily for medical professionals…

Atlanta may get a world class spinal cord injury research center. The Healthcare Institute for Neuro Recovery and Innovation (HINRI), according to a report this week in Atlanta Business Chronicle, would be one of a few centers in the world researching the complicated field of complete spinal cord injuries, in which the person loses all…

One of our most inspirational spinal cord injury clients ever is Alyson Roth, who just completed her year as Ms. Wheelchair California. Click here to see her message on Youtube. Coincidentally, one of my wife’s younger relatives was recently selected as Ms. Wheelchair North Carolina. As an Atlanta, Georgia, attorney focused on catastrophic injury cases,…

As a Georgia attorney representing people with spinal cord and brain injuries, I am always alert to new treatments that offer hope for a better life for them. New animal studies at Children’s Hospital of Boston showed the suppression of the SOCS3 gene, an inhibitor of a growth pathway called mTOR — resulted in vigorous…