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Listing: Organ Transplant Resources

This resource provides a listing of organ transplant foundations that help people navigate through recovering with a new organ or limb.

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Acute Flaccid Myelitis AFM

AFM is a rare and serious disease that affects the spinal cord; the part of the nervous system that carries messages from the brain to the body, and causes the muscles and reflexes in the body to weaken. AFM is a polio-like neurologic disease.

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Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center MSKTC

Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), is a national center that helps facilitate the knowledge translation process to make research meaningful to those with Spinal Cord Injury SCI - Traumatic Brain Injury TBI and Burn Injury.

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Professional Medical and Health Research Resources

This list of medical and health resources is to aid professional staff in research and discovery about conditions and tools to support evidence based practice and decision making in health care.

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Evidence Based Practice and Critical Appraisal Tools

This is a resource to support nursing evidence based practice with tools to discover, identify, and use best patient care decision practices.

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Listing: Aphasia Resources

Aphasia is a loss of words, not intelligence. Aphasia can occur as a result of a stroke, traumatic or non-traumatic brain injury, or an infection. All these conditions or injuries may affect the area of the brain that is responsible for speech and language. This listing provides consumer health resources for persons living with Aphasia and/or their loved ones.

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Neurogenic Heterotopic Ossification

Neurogenic heterotopic ossification (NHO) is a disorder of aberrant bone formation affecting one in five patients sustaining a spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury.

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Master Listing Index

Master Listing Index is a table of contents of all resources called Listings. This is a subject oriented index of resources most referenced for our patient populations in adapting and thriving with a disability.

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Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Illinois

The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Illinois provides information for professionals and consumers on the medical research, treatment and support system for this disease.

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Listing: Spina Bifida Resources

The following Listing includes resources pertaining to Spina Bifida, a birth deficit that affects the function of the spinal cord and the resources may include information about the medical condition, prevention, research, support groups, camps, mentoring programs, scholarships and treatment.

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