Tag: Drugs and Medication

Medications

Some of these may sound familiar. Are you ... taking more than one prescription drug? getting prescriptions from more than one doctor or pharmacy? taking one or...

Optimal Health

What Is It and How to Get It You are over your rehab and are reaching a level of health that you feel good about....

Osteoporosis

Rick was getting dressed one morning ­ just sliding on his pants and pulling up a sock. He heard a loud “SNAP.” Broken hip,...

Smoking

You already know that a spinal cord injury causes an Impairment of the muscles involved in breathing ­ the higher the injury, the greater...

Spasticity – aging with a spinal cord injury

Thirty and forty years ago, no one “in the know” believed that aging with a spinal cord injury would be something we’d care about....

Spirituality

Because spinal cord injury can be a life changing event, your whole way of life - including your spirituality -- is challenged. You may...

Understanding and Managing Stress

It could be a traffic jam, or a busy airport. It could be at school or on the job. Wherever your look, you can...

Upper-Extremity Pain

For 20 years, Tom had “no aches, no pains, no nothing.” Why was his luck changing now? Maybe his shoulder pain started because his...

You Are How You Feel

One of the first questions out of your doctor's mouth is often something like, "How are you feeling?" More than just a conversation starter,...

Little Great Race participants to take big strides for area man

Like hundreds of other people, Frankie Gogol will be a spectator at the annual Little Great Race in Charleroi on Saturday, Sept. 10. But...