Research & Education

Electronic Publications Online Store

 

Download a consumer guide or clinical practice guideline (CPG) from our Electronic Publications Online Store. Free and low-cost information, electronic and hard copy information available.

 

Investing in Innovation

 

Since 1946, Paralyzed Veterans has pursued a mission beyond ensuring that the healthcare and benefits needs of veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) are met. The mission also includes promoting research into a cure for paralysis as well as improved care for those with SCI until a cure is found.

 

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New “App” Available for Health-Care Professionals Treating Spinal Cord Injuries 

 

Health-care professionals using iPads and iPhones have a new way to access interactive “e-book” versions of the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine’s popular Clinical Practice Guidelines.

 

CONTINUE Film

 

The PVA Education Foundation funded a two-year grant to assist in the creation of an inspirational film, CONTINUE, a groundbreaking new film that shatters the stereotypes regularly associated with disability.

 

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Testimonials on Clinical Practice Guidelines and Consumer Guides

 

How have consumer guides and clinical practice guidelines been helpful? Check out these testimonials.

 

More than 750,000 people in the United States, including veterans, live with spinal cord injury or a spinal cord disease (SCI/D). Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) responds to their needs by supporting research, educational programs and other initiatives that unite people and activities toward a single mission: improved quality of life.

Research into treatments and cures for SCI has been a priority for Paralyzed Veterans of America since our earliest days. Our founders were pioneers in promoting research. They recognized that paralysis does not affect veterans of military service exclusively, but can happen to anyone at any stage of their lives.

Until a few decades ago, most scientists believed that paralysis due to spinal cord injury was impossible to reverse. Steady research investment from PVA and others committed to finding a way to reverse paralysis has produced promising laboratory results and demonstrated that, given the right parameters, it is possible to reverse nerve damage, rewire severed nerves, and restore lost neurological function.

PVA continues to work towards alleviating the effects of and finding a cure for SCI/D through the efforts of the PVA Education Foundation, the PVA Research Foundation, multiple partnerships and the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine’s evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and consumer guides.

 

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