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Spinal Cord Injury: Progress, Promise, and Priorities (2005)
Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health (NBH)

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. "Appendix F Examples of Alternative Therapies." Spinal Cord Injury: Progress, Promise, and Priorities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2005.

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Spinal Cord Injury: Progress, Promise, and Priorities

Shark embryo cell transplantation

Surgical procedure involving decompression surgery, removal of bone fragments, drainage of cysts, and injection of blue shark embryo cells and growth factors, followed by physical therapy.

St. John’s wort

Herbal medicine that may treat mild cases of depression.

 

SOURCES: Johnston, L. 2002. Alternative & Innovative Therapies for Physical Disability. [Online]. Available: http://healingtherapies.info/ [accessed August 5, 2004]; Spinal Cord Injury Information Network. 1998. Alternative Therapies. [Online]. Available: http://www.spinalcord.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=21745 [accessed November 10, 2004]; Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System. 2002. Complementary and Alternative Medicine. [Online]. Available: http://www.depts.washington.edu/rehab/sci/comp_alt_med.html [accessed February 25, 2005].

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