Tag: Equipment
Local athlete relates to Kevin Everett’s injury
ROCHESTER - Although he never played professional football Anthony Salmon knows about sports and spinal cord injuries. It happened almost exactly four years ago.
During...
Plager lives life full-speed ahead
The dining room table in Angie Plager's living room is taller than most. So is her computer desk. The furniture is arranged along the...
In poor countries, spinal injury still means death
LONDON (Reuters) - A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the...
Paralysis victim ‘returned to life’
As he'd done so many times before, Jonah Shea tackled the chilly waters of Cape Cod Bay by running and diving in head first.
The...
Wheels turn as Allore reiterates vow to walk again
Ken Allore has never given up hope that one day he will walk again.
Allore is determined to do what he can to make...
Injury gives athlete opportunities
Most people might not say a spinal cord injury is a positive event in their lives. Brian Sheridan does.
A life-long athlete who had hoped...
Terry Using Environmental Control
Terry uses an Environmental Control system to control equipment in his home to enable him to be as independent as possible.
Walk proceeds buys equipment
More than $4,000 has been raised for spinal cord injury research and quality of life projects through the different events that comprised the fifth...
Trager family donates $1M to Frazier Rehab Institute
Business First of Louisville
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare Inc.'s Frazier Rehab Institute has received a $1 million gift from the Bernard and Jean...
Violence taxes Baghdad’s spinal injury hospital
Some patients wait a year to get only such care in the city
Baghdad -- Mohammed Abdul Hussein moans as he tries to shift his...
