One of the more horrifying disorders one can experience is locked-in syndrome, in which a person is conscious, but cannot move or cannot communicate. Because of the lack of communication, caregivers often don't know the...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tny6D-pvw_I](Vide...  ...he Foundation is developing toys that people with paralysis can use with children. These include remote contr...

Paralysed rabbit walks again with bunny wheelchair http://t.co/ytODA4pD8w pic.twitter.com/KJbLojhSmP— Telegraph News (@TelegraphNews) August 18, 2015 The vet told Melanie James that she should just have Bertha put...

At the age of 20, Mariam Fatima Paré was an art student in college. She had a promising career ahead of her. Then she was shot in the back and left paralyzed from the neck down.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpGY...

New technologies are giving people with paralysis more independence than ever before. We've previou...

(Image: Make Medicine Better)Dr. Ted Rummel is an orthopedic surgeon in O’Fallon, Missouri. A few years ago, a blood-filled cyst in his spinal cord ruptured, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. That tragedy...

Photo: Calum RobertsonPascale Honore enjoyed watching her sons surf the waves near her home in Elliston, Australia. But she was paralyzed in a car accident 18 years ago, so she thought that she'd never be able to join th...

Four years ago, Mike Loura was struck by a car while riding his bike and became paralyzed. Today, he walked again for the first time thanks to a robotic exoskeleton: "...

Photo: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Scientists have a breakthrough in spinal injury research: they were able to teach paralyzed rats with spinal cord injury to walk again...

Dutch athlete Monique van der Vorst became paralyzed from the hip down during a surgical operation when she was 13 years old, and used a wheelchair afterward. She also suffered a spinal cord injury in 2008. Meanwhile, s...