Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury Still Evolving

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Wise Young, Chrisoper Reeve's doctor, spoke recently at a rehab institute in Connecticut. His speech focused on the advancement in reasearch and treatment of spinal cord injuries since Reeve's horse-riding accident in 1995.

Most of his talk, titled "Stem Cells and Spinal Injury Repair," centered on advancements in spinal cord injury research since 1995. Much research focuses on getting axons, the parts of nerve cells through which impulses travel from the cell body, to re-establish communication through areas disrupted by injury. Young went into great detail in describing research and advances in the areas of surgery, rehabilitation and drug and regenerative therapies that have taken place across the world.

Young noted a lack of funding (from the Federal Government) for stem-cell research as a reason research and treatments have not advanced more quickly. He is working togeter with a network of states who have started funding on their own in the face of a lack of federal funds. Record-Journal.com provides more details: Spinal Cord Injuries.