Tag: Family and Friends
West Scranton grad won’t be slowed by injury
The last four years of Jonathan Kloss’ life have been a challenge.
But not just because he took classes that pushed him and had 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...
A new approach to paralysis rehab
Book looks at family challenges
Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects an estimated 12,000 people each year, according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center....
Student innovations benefit patients
Every other weekday morning, a patient named Joe swims in the 12th-floor pool of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Having sustained a C6-C7 spinal...
One man’s quest to walk again
Editor's note: Paralysis after a spinal cord injury brings wrenching decisions: Do you accept it as permanent and adapt, or do you refuse to...
Surfer girl finds out how fragile life really is
Devyn Bisson, 15, suffers a spinal cord injury, gears up the courage to surf again.
HUNTINGTON BEACH She doesn't remember the man's name or much...
Fil-Am is most severely wounded Iraq veteran
The most severely wounded and disabled US soldier to return home from Iraq is a Filipino-American by the name of Joseph “Jay” Briseno Jr....
Gym gets people with disabilities in shape
Because of a spinal cord injury, Elizabeth Fust is paralyzed from the mid-back down, but don't expect to see her sitting idly by, twiddling...
Experimental Russian stem cell treatments for spinal injury credited for woman’s progress
When Kadi DeHaan took her first steps in December, two years after a car accident forced her into a wheelchair, she did it in...
West Seattle native fights back from bizarre surfing injury
That’s 20-year-old Adrianna “Addie” Killam, who grew up in West Seattle — graduating from Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2002, Holy Names Academy in...
