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Spine-injury patients' hopes rising

Not so long ago, a spinal cord injury meant life in a wheelchair, with little chance for improvement. But today, scientists say, research is pointing toward treatments that may restore movement, relieve pain and offer hope.

Just ask Diane Hughes. The Hammond, La., teacher was partially paralyzed from the chest down 12 years ago by a gunshot wound and spent a year having "a pity party," she says.

She decided that wasn't helping, so with the support of family and faith, she went back to work, built a wheelchair-accessible home and two years ago took part in a study to test new rehabilitation methods at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami.

Hughes, 58, was strapped into a computer-driven
http://www.indystar.com/articles/5/172946-1855-047.html

posted @ Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:00 AM by host

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