1.   Not wearing a seat belt, he was thrown through a window and suffered spinal damage.

2.   The first cases would probably be people with limited, well-defined injuries, similar to the spinal damage in the experiment.

3.   Tom Waddell was an alcoholic with permanent spinal damage and rarely had contact with the family.

4.   Both men received head injuries but Mnatsakanov also sustained spinal damage that required the insertion of two metal rods to stabilize his spine.

5.   Conducting the surgery sooner can reduce the chance of spinal damage, he said.

6.   He suffered spinal damage and lost many of his teeth in beatings.

7.   She was left with spinal damage.

8.   Yale University researchers last year reported that they had used genetically modified cells from pig snouts to repair crippling spinal damage in lab rats.