Friday, March 29, 2024

Tag: Disabilty

Blowing away a sniff of a cure

Andrew Commons is determined to walk again - utterly determined. As well as following an intensive daily exercise regime, he's also undergone courses of...

Disaboom.com

Disaboom.com is a dynamic, interactive online community for people with disabilities and those whose lives they touch. It combines disability-related health and lifestyles information...

Published Study Shows Oxycyte Successfully Reduces Oxygen Shortages in a Spinal Cord Injury Model

COSTA MESA, Calif., Jul 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. OXBO today announced that a study to be published in the...

Fund-raiser will help injured student find more independence – with a converted van

GODFREY - Kelly Dorris' life has changed over the last two years - but it certainly hasn't stopped. After experiencing a severe spinal cord injury...

Community Participation after Spinal Cord Injury

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI4rrTYKmvE This Photovoice project is the result of 10 people with spinal cord injury photographing issues of accessibility of the community around Charleston, SC. We...

A surgeon’s struggle to regain his life and career

Accident paralyzed his body but not the love for his work Sweat soaked his Aggie baseball cap as Eugene Alford lurched upright over the parallel...

Spinal cord injury no bar to parenthood

But resources are few, mother's study finds Anita Kaiser always wanted to be a mother. That dream didn't change following the 1996 car crash that...

Unstoppable

Justin Cochran may be disabled from the neck down, but that has not stopped him from skydiving, parasailing, hiking or organizing a golf tournament. The...

Power to the Paralyzed

For patients with paralyzing spinal cord injuries, sometimes it takes more than medicine and Physical Therapy to help get them on the road to...

New report shows locomotor training restores walking function in child with spinal cord injury

Central Nervous System may be retrained, report led by Physical Therapist shows ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 4, 2008)—A new report shows that a non-ambulatory (unable to...