Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been demoted for helping a small factory improve its miniature rubber bearings during his off-hours. Wang Ying, an independent fruit vendor in Peking, found herself on the front pages of the newspapers when an outraged policeman confiscated her vendor's license. In the fracas, her mother suffered spinal injuries. Officials apologized to Wang and compensated her for her losses, including her mother's medical expenses...
...development of the X-ray machine one hundred years ago." Unlike CAT and other forms of X ray, NMR can "see" with clarity through the thickest of bones. Thus, without painful injections of contrast material, it can reveal damage from a stroke buried deep beneath the skull, find tiny spinal cord injuries, and make it possible to differentiate the gray and white matter of the brain. "For the soft tissue of the body," says Worthington, "NMR comes close to being the perfect imaging technique...
...nation's 10 million physically handicapped, telecommuting encourages new hopes of earning a livelihood. A Chicago-area organization called Lift has taught computer programming to 50 people with such devastating afflictions as polio, cerebral palsy and spinal damage. Lift President Charles Schmidt cites a 46-year-old man paralyzed by polio: "He never held a job in his life until he entered our program three years ago, and now he's a programmer for Walgreens...
...ultimate hope of every spinal cord-injury victim is that crippled limbs will work again. That dream seems tantalizingly close for a 22-year-old paraplegic in Dayton. Using a computer-based locomotion system, Nan Davis, a senior at Wright State University, recently stood up in front of television news cameras, took half a dozen halting strides and said with a laugh, "One small step for mankind." Davis has been paralyzed from the rib cage down as a result of an auto crash in 1978, on the night of her high school graduation...
...says Wright State Technician Harry Heaton. "But it will eventually be a small microprocessor capable of being implanted pacemaker-style." Petrofsky says his system might be ready for commercialization within a decade. Others in the field find his optimism misleading. Says Dr. Paul Meyer, past president of the American Spinal Injury Association: "Imagine all that went into getting that young woman to take those steps. We've got an extremely long way to go before we can individualize this...