The FDA is currently open to public comments from the SCI community until October 30th. If you are a stakeholder in this field (PLEX, Family/Caregiver, Researcher, Clinician, Industry, Foundation, etc) please share your experience of SCI by submitting a public comment to the FDA now. And if you’re looking for a pointed message, consider highlighting the uniqueness of SCI - that it is not a simple injury, but is instead a condition of conditions (i.e. it involves a cascade of secondary complications like UTIs, nerve pain, autonomic dysreflexia, etc) that severely effect our...

Today we are speaking with Dr. Damiano Barone. Damiano is a researcher and neurosurgeon at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston. We discuss a recently published Nature Communications paper studying a novel spinal cord stimulation device. The device takes a new approach, having a section which wraps around the spinal cord, able to send stimulation and detect responses in the cord. This is in contrast to current epidural stimulators which stimulate only the dorsal section of the cord. The work is early, but...

That success would have been impossible without so many of you - you made calls, you sent emails, you showed up in the halls of power and then chipped in with your financial support, and it made a difference! Now come participate in some joy with us, as we use that energy for the next hurdle on this necessary journey...