“I compressed my spinal cord at T-11 and T-12.”
Andrew Wesselman
“In a blink of an eye, that bullet ripped across his spinal cord and changed this kid's life.”
David Harrington
“The participants are severely disabled vets with spinal cord injuries, amputees, brain injuries.”
Jim Hall
“Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?”
Kathy Lewis
“If your daughter has diabetes, if your father has Parkinson's, if your sister has a spinal cord injury, ... your views will be swayed more powerfully than you can imagine by the hope that a cure will be found in those magnificent cells, recently discovered, that today originate only in an embryo.”
Bill Frist
“If you have a spinal cord injury you don't want to wait four hours,”
David Brown
“Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.”
Ethel Rosenberg
