Tag: Chronic Pain
cotton to the core Jim MacLaren
When ex-football and lacrosse star Jim MacLaren graduated from Yale a little more than 20 years ago, he thought life's plan for him was...
Everyone is a Player
The paralyzed patients at Rehab Hospital are taught how to relearn their skills and sports
DAWNA ZANE has won the marathon in Honolulu, paddled in...
A cruel joke, a broken spine, a new purpose
Pedro Toala, soaked with human waste and blue-ish chemicals, could hear the kids laughing outside the portable toilet they had just tipped over.
Toala was...
The spinal cord – The brain and body connector
The spinal cord is the all-important switchbox that connects the brain with the body. It's like a big bundle of wires entering a telephone...
Banker injured in Spain moved to Atlanta for treatment
(Charlotte, NC-AP) July 31, 2006 - A Charlotte, North Carolina, banker who suffered a severe spine injury during last month's running of the bulls...
Bush’s embryonic stem cell stance helps to keep her in a wheelchair
(July 25, 2006) — A budding young artist eagerly applies himself to developing his talent, but he's frustrated when his teachers allow him to...
Paralyzed Man Thinks Robotic Devices into Motion
PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 12 -- A man paralyzed from the neck down has been trained to control a computer cursor and manipulate robotic prostheses...
Surgery offers hope, but price is high
Insurance won't cover operation that could restore function, feeling, normalcy to life
A former Fort Campbell soldier who was deployed to Iraq in 2003...
Barbara McKee: Walking can wait
To buoy up the spirits of the Disability community, scientists have dragged out the rats again.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins released a report of 15...
Remaking the connection
After suffering a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the chest down, 13-year-old Matthew Sanford coped by distancing himself from his body.
During painful...
