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Recent injuries highlight hazards of the game
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 Heading into week four and putting a quarter of the regular season
in the books for most teams, there have two major neck injuries in the
NFL.
Buffalo Bills backup tight end Kevin Everett and Houston
Texans defensive tackle Cedric Killings both suffered fractured
vertebrae. Everett was injured Sept. 9 and Killings on Sept. 23 after
he collided with Indianapolis receiver Roy Hall.
"It was an unfortunate situation in Buffalo," Houston coach Gary
Kubiak said. "It was so difficult to deal with. For a moment there we
were staring at a very difficult situation ourselves. We are just
fortunate that our man came out OK." While Killings left the hospital on Friday and and is walking again, Everett has a more difficult rehabilitation period.
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Killings walks at practice after spine injury
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Houston Texans defensive tackle Cedric Killings
surprised his teammates by walking into practice Friday, just five days
after fracturing a vertebra in his neck.
Killings wore a neck brace and had a
black eye from the headfirst collision with Indianapolis receiver Roy
Hall on Sunday, but couldn't keep a huge smile off his face.
As he walked in, someone yelled "Oh God," before players began clapping and screaming.
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Woman happy with progress after Chinese spinal surgery
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 Christan Zaccagnino awoke at Xishan Hospital near Beijing with a roaring headache.The
24-year-old Port Chester woman had just endured two hours of spinal
cord surgery. Doctors transplanted cells above and below the spot in
her spinal cord that was injured 14 years earlier in a diving accident.
They hoped to restore movement and feeling to her paralyzed body. Zaccagnino
is among hundreds of people with spinal cord injuries and other
debilitating afflictions who have placed their faith in Dr. Hongyun
Huang, a Chinese neurosurgeon who has transplanted fetal brain tissue
into the lesions of more than 400 such patients from across the world.
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Paralyzed Golfer Gets High-Tech Help
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 Golf Tournament Raises Money For Spinal Cord Patients
Spinal cord injuries can be debilitating, but a Norwood man said recreation is still possible, and in some cases, vital.
NewsCenter 5's Pam Cross reported that Jerry Donovan said a high-tech chair put him back on the golf course.
"My
golf games have gotten a lot better. Before I wasn't really paying
attention to my score. I buried a hole a couple of weeks ago in
Norwood, and it just changed my whole attitude," Donovan said.
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Red Bull-backed Wings For Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation Comes To America
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It happens every 41 minutes: somebody in the U.S. sustains a spinal
cord injury. This epidemic, which affects more than 2.5 million people
worldwide, including 300,000 Americans, has yet to become a focus of
major medical study -- until now. Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research
Foundation is a global charity dedicated to making spinal injury
curable, and its U.S. debut is poised to make a major impact in the
athletic community and beyond.
The foundation's goals are four-fold: (1) funding cutting edge
scientific research aiming to heal spinal cord injury; (2) improving
scientific communication in this specific field of research; (3)
developing concrete, clinical intervention strategies and their
potential applications; and (4) preventing spinal cord injuries.
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Bills TE Everett Continuing to Improve
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 Bills TE Kevin Everett Continues to Improve, Lifting His Right Arm and Sitting Up in Bed
Kevin Everett made more significant strides over the weekend in his recovery from a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
The Buffalo Bills tight end lifted his right arm for the first time
Sunday, a day after sitting up in bed for four hours, Dr. Teodoro
Castillo, his attending physician, said Monday. Everett couldn't sit up
for longer than 90 minutes before he was moved to Memorial Hermann
Hospital from a Buffalo hospital on Friday.
"Nobody can predict the future but if Kevin continues to show recovery, I am optimistic of a good outcome," Castillo said.
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South Gwinnett player suffers spinal injury
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 A South
Gwinnett High School football player underwent a second surgery Monday
morning after suffering a spinal cord injury in a game last week that
left him unable to walk.
He has been identified in news reports as Arquevious Crane, an 11th
grader at the school. He was injured Thursday in a junior varsity game
against Buford High School. "There
is some movement (in the arms) and the family's obviously hoping that
things will get better," said South Gwinnett principal Berry Simmons.
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Transplants Using Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Restore Functions for Spinal Cord Injury Patients
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Preliminary Results Involving 38 Patients Presented at 2007
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
PrimeCell(TM) Therapeutics LLC
today announced that it
provided research support and pre-clinical studies for a clinical
trial that involved the implantation of autologous adult bone marrow
stem cells into spinal cord injury (SCI) patients - resulting in some
restored function for patients who have been paralyzed for an average
of four years, some up to 22 years.
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One player's pain paying off for fallen Bill
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MIAMI: This is a story about good karma, with a tough beginning, a ton of tears, but a happy ending.
On Oct. 26, 1985, a 19-year-old middle linebacker for Citadel, Marc
Buoniconti, suffered a dislocation of the third and fourth cervical
vertebrae and a severe spinal cord injury while making a routine
tackle. Now 40, Buoniconti has spent more than half his life in a
wheelchair. Two weeks ago, Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett
injured the same two cervical vertebrae while making a routine tackle.
Doctors say Everett will walk soon. And he can thank Buoniconti.
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Steps to a Cure
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Kevin Everett, the Buffalo Bills player who was paralyzed after
breaking his neck on the football field, will soon walk. That’s
what doctors said as he was transferred from Buffalo to a Houston
hospital today, less than two weeks after sustaining a life-threatening
spinal cord injury.
“Soon… they’re going
to stand him up,” Dr. Barth Green, president of The Miami Project
to Cure Paralysis, told the Associated Press. “(Doctors are) very
confident he’ll be walking very soon… in the next days or
weeks, not months.”
Incredible news. Some would consider Everett’s progress a miracle.
But it’s not.
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September 2007
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