Spinal Cord Injury Information Available on UAB Web Site.Seeking information or resources on spinal cord injury Spinal Cord Injury Definition Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation and motor control. Description Approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur each year in the United States. (SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. )? Try the SPINALCORD Injury Information Network, accessible on the Internet at www.spinalcord.uab.edu, maintained by the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB began in 1936 as the Birmingham Extension Center of the University of Alabama. Because of the rapid growth of the Birmingham area, it was decided that an extension program for students who had difficulties which prevented them from studying in Tuscaloosa was needed. (UAB), the site of the National Statistical Center of the Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System. This web site provides information and links to hundreds of national SCI resources. All information is easy to find. You can locate your topics using the alphabetical list of terms of the table of contents with its subject categories. Each entry has information on the availability of the item or a direct link to the full-text web page. Additional features include a guest book for posting messages, a chat room for online discussions, and a listing of frequently asked questions with the latest statistics on SCI. The SPINALCORD Injury Information Network is funded by the Education and Training Foundation of the Paralyzed Veterans of America The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) is a congressionally-chartered veterans' service organization in the United States of America, founded in 1946. It describes itself as having "developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of our members and supported by the staff of the federally funded UAB Rehabilitation Research and Training Center located in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physical medicine and rehabilitation or physiatry or physical therapy or rehabilitation medicine Medical specialty treating chronic disabilities through physical means to help patients return to a comfortable, productive life despite a medical at UAB's Spain Rehabilitation Center. |
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