When Aaron Phillips, PhD, was in graduate school, a lab member who became a close friend had a spinal cord injury (SCI). “He shared with me the serious blood pressure instability he faced every day,” Phillips told Inside Precision Medicine . “His experience sparked my curiosity and motivated me to develop and utilize my skills to understand and solve this problem.” Blood pressure instability is a hidden but debilitating consequence of SCI, causing daily dizziness, blurred vision, fatigue, and fainting episodes triggered by standing, eating, or even light exertion. These hypotensive complications limit rehabilitation, increase stroke and heart disease risk, and reduce independence and quality of life, and current treatments, such as abdominal binders, compression stockings, high-sal

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