Tag: Independence
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...
Spinal cord survivors share stories
SIOUX CITY -- One minute, Jon Schuetz was riding a motorcycle under a sunny Florida sky. The next minute, he was on the ground,...
A network of support
Spinal cord injury sets Napan on track to help others
Bill Iverson “learned a lot about people” during his 10 years in the saddle as...
After accident, Katie Mathews knows what life is about now
She just wants to be herself. "Normal," she says.
But Katie Mathews, 17d, has had only fleeting glimpses of normal since the wreck in the...
Road to independence
St. Teresa man recovering from spinal cord injury suffered in car accident
Michael Curran is inching his way back to independence.
Curran, 32, of St. Teresa...
Everett’s injury latest in long list of devastating hits
EDMONTON - If Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett is experiencing the "totally spectacular, totally unexpected" recovery from what the team physician earlier had...
Healing friend
Therapy dog Colonel spreads joy as he visits hospitals, schools, centers
Colonel can bark in five languages - but that's not the best part.
The 8-year-old...
Group promotes outdoor adventures for the disabled
LEWISVILLE LAKE -- Nine-year-old Joshua Vandiver stood in a folding chair so he could see at the helm of a 70-foot catamaran on Lewisville...
Patients heading abroad for hope
Those with spinal injuries brave risks to find new therapies overseas
McKINNEY – Two weeks after Tonya Winchester celebrated her high school graduation, an 18-wheeler...
