Xbox Continues to Champion the Gaming & Disability Community with New Accessibility Updates
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
4M ago
Gaming allows us to experience worlds beyond imagination, share our stories and forge friendships with people across the world. At Xbox we believe that gaming is for everyone, including the over 429 million players with disabilities, and it is our responsibility to create a place where everyone feels welcome, safe, and included to experience the… Continue Reading ..read more
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Delta Flight Products to Feature New Seat Prototype for Passengers with Reduced Mobility at 2023 Aircraft Interiors Expo
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
At next week’s annual Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany, Delta Flight Products (DFP) will debut a full prototype of a first-of-its kind airplane seat that allows customers who use a powered wheelchair to remain in their own wheelchairs for the entire journey. DFP has partnered with UK-based consortium Air4All on the seat, which… Continue Reading ..read more
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
Join an event or webinar, and engage in the discussion of how to make the internet more accessible to all, including a wide range of disabilities and limitations. Global Accessibility Awareness Day takes place every year on the third Thursday of May, and is all about getting people thinking and talking about making the web… Continue Reading ..read more
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Review: No proof that indwelling catheters cause more UTIs than intermittent catheterization
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
Newswise — The evidence does not support the common belief that indwelling catheters cause more urinary tract infections (UTIs) than intermittent catheterization, according to a systematic review of bladder management and infection risk from UTHealth Houston. The review – written by Matthew Davis, MD, associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with McGovern Medical School at… Continue Reading ..read more
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Bridging the Gap (BG+): AI-enabled Solutions for Spinal Cord Injury
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
The Bridging the Gap Plus (BG+) program aims to develop new approaches for treating spinal cord injury by integrating injury stabilization, regenerative therapy, and functional restoration. To achieve this combinatorial approach, BG+ teams will build two systems of implantable and adaptive devices. The first system will reduce injury effects during the early phases of spinal… Continue Reading ..read more
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Cat locomotion could unlock better human spinal cord injury treatment
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
Cats always land on their feet, but what makes them so agile? Their unique sense of balance has more in common with humans than it may appear. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying cat locomotion to better understand how the spinal cord works to help humans with partial spinal cord damage walk… Continue Reading ..read more
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Creating art is a ‘very uplifting emotion’ for quadriplegic artist
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
BALTIMORE — Stroke by stroke, the brush glides over canvas, creating scenes that few could do by hand. Except that this artist, Robert Florio, paints by mouth. The quadriplegic Glen Burnie, Maryland, resident wields a brush attached to a mouthpiece, and paints by swiveling his head and neck — about the only parts of his… Continue Reading ..read more
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Disability inclusion in esports and gaming can ‘change the makeup of society’
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
Brisbane’s Justin Hua, 28, has always enjoyed playing video games. Like many kids of the 1990s it started with a Game Boy and eventually progressed to online games once he had access to a “10 year old computer that sounded like a vacuum cleaner and little to no internet.” While his internet connection eventually improved, Justin’s… Continue Reading ..read more
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Pair of Studies Uncover Surprising New Roles for Spinal Cord and Brainstem in Touch
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
New research suggests spinal cord and brainstem are essential for processing touch signals as they travel to the brain The sense of touch is essential to almost everything we do, from routine tasks at home to navigating unfamiliar terrains that may conceal dangers. Scientists have long been interested in understanding exactly how the touch information… Continue Reading ..read more
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Scientists identify neurons that restore walking after paralysis
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by The Spinal Cord Injury Zone
5M ago
In a multi-year research program coordinated by the two directors of .NeuroRestore—Grégoire Courtine, a neuroscience professor at EPFL, and Jocelyne Bloch, a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)—patients who had been paralyzed by a spinal cord injury and who underwent targeted epidural electrical stimulation of the area that controls leg movement were able to regain… Continue Reading ..read more
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