As a reminder, our 2nd Annual Rock for SCI Research is meant to celebrate the restoration of $33M to the federal SCI research budget, which happened after a year of hard, strategic work led by U2FP. So many of you were pivotal in making that happen, through your engagement, advocacy, calls and financial support!

But as you know, $33M is not enough. $40M is not enough. Instead, we need to expand SCI research funding so that it at least matches the burden of...

Today we’re talking with Megan Gill and Ryan Solinsky, both researchers at the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. We discuss a common problem in spinal cord injury neuromodulation work: abandoned technology, or the lack of support that comes after receiving a neuromodulating device like an epidural stimulator. The Mayo Clinic aims to address this gap in care and Megan and Ryan discuss that new rehabilitation service. Additionally, they talk about two new spinal cord injury clinical studies that are being conducted by the Mayo. One is in...

As I relayed in a New Mobility article last month, I recently demolished my son’s wheelchair ramp and took it to the city dump. I tore it down because nearly two decades of wear and weather had turned the support posts to dirt. It was crumbling and no longer safe to get him in and out of our house. While I was throwing the pieces into the scrap pile, I couldn’t help but reflect on the 18 years since my son’s spinal cord injury (SCI). Back then, I had...