Tag: Equipment
More room for rehab
Frazier tower nearly done; new programs draw patients
Jen Boisvert, clad in black exercise clothes, went through some stretches in a sixth-floor gym at...
Bringing the gift of mobility
Woman gives villagers treatment, wheelchairs
When Physical Therapist Colleen Sullivan Moses and her group drove up to a village in Tibet, they often found an...
Coalition Calls on Congress to Change Medicare Rule
Mobility equipment manufacturers and dealers are joining with power wheelchair users and doctors to call on Congress to prevent a major access problem for...
We have to work hard
BETHEL -- For Cisco Fernandes, the adage that you have to crawl before you can walk is more than just a metaphor for life.
When...
STOP MEDICARE ATROCITY
Medicare is moving fast to take away funding for complex mobility equipment like power wheelchairs.
People rely on this equipment to go to school, take...
Wheelchair funding to be cut
To combat fraud, Medicare reducing reimbursements
There is no question that Keith Copen needs his motorized wheelchair. The 59-year-old is paralyzed from the thighs down...
Banking your cord blood
Estimated to be a $2 billion market worldwide, cord blood storage market is now beginning to grow at a fast pace in India too,...
Retraining the brain
New device offers a glimmer of hope for victims of spinal injuries and stroke
Jeremy Doman picked up a little stuffed piggy, moved it a...
Finally, Buoniconti, Citadel reconcile
MIAMI — Marc Buoniconti's spinal cord was crushed on a college football field nearly 21 years ago. His relationship with the Citadel was severed...
Anti-Ban Billionaires
Billionaire cash has kept embryonic stem-cell research alive--just barely.
Anti-abortion crusaders see research on embryonic stem cells as something akin to murder. Eli Broad sees...
