Studies have learned of an 84-year-old man who lived the life of a man decades younger. He didn’t take any medications, played golf, traveled, walked four miles most days, and worked out three times a week. Part of that fitness routine was work on an inflated exercise ball, until the…
Legislation has been introduced in the California legislature that seeks to impose a $3 fine onto every ticket that is issued in California for reckless driving. Assembly Bill 190, as the legislation has been titled, seeks to reestablish the goal of another California law that funded spinal cord paralysis research.…
A spinal injury has not slowed down a 25-year-old dressage champion, at least not much. According to a doctor, the young woman broke her spine in a tragic riding accident at the age of 20. The young woman fell off of a friend’s horse when the horse suddenly reared, and…
Earlier this month, a preliminary hearing wrapped up for three men accused of beating and causing paraplegia an Oklahoma City Police Officer. The Oklahoma County Special Judge ruled that the three men could stand trial. The officer was attacked when he was escorting the defendants out of a northwest Oklahoma…
Adam Potter is becoming a household name after the 36-year-old Glasgow man fell a startling 1,000 feet and lived to tell about it. Potter and his companions had reached the summit of Sgurr Coinnich Mor (3,589 feet) when Potter somehow lost his footing and began to fall down a rocky,…
Boston Celtics player Marquis Daniels was released from the hospital on February 7th, 2011 after sustaining a spinal cord injury during Sunday’s game. Daniels was playing with his team, the Boston Celtics, against the Orlando Magics when he sustained his injury. The injury occurred when Daniels tripped over Gilberu Arenas,…
A Philadelphia judge on refused on Monday to let the parents of a hospitalized Chichester High School wrestler treat him at home with alternative medicine. The judge did not resolve the battle with the family and the boy’s doctors. The teenager from Boothwyn has been hospitalized since he collided with…
A 26-year-old was working on top of a farm-building when the roof of building collapsed out from under him, causing him to fall six meters to the floor. The roof sheeting, which he had been standing on, is what collapsed. The 26-year-old was sub-contracting for a larger company at the…
A businessman was fined recently after one of his employees was injured on the job, sustaining a spinal injury after slipping and falling off of a ladder. The employee was climbing a ladder; in an effort to reach a mechanism at the commercial vehicle garage that he worked at, when…
A 12-year-old New Zealand boy was recently airlifted to the Whangarei Hospital, after suffering an accident, which could lead to a possible spinal injury. His mother took the 12-year-old to the Kerkeri Medical Centre when he began complaining of a sore neck, reported a New York Spinal Injury Lawyer. While…