Tag: Physical Rehabilitation
TREADMILL TRAINING
(Adapted from February 2007 “PN/Paraplegia News” article)
Many aggressive Rehabilitation programs have incorporated body-weight-supported (BWS) treadmill training to enhance ambulatory ability after spinal cord...
Canine companion could help Walker realize goals
Trenell Walker is a UNT graduate and is currently working on his masters degree at the University of North Texas in Denton in Rehabilitation...
An Oregon Tale
RECENTLY MY OLDEST son, Noah, graduated from the University of Oregon. He wore the traditional cap with tassel as a concession to his mother’s...
College wheelchair athletes play in ‘other’ basketball tourney
EDINBORO, Pa. - The nine teams battling it out on the basketball court here aren't listed on any NCAA brackets. There will be no...
Persistence paid off for paralyzed dad
In the weeks following the car accident that left him paralyzed below the waist, Geoff Luther was haunted by worries that he'd lost the...
Elderly spinal cord injuries increase 5-fold in 30 years
PHILADELPHIA— The number of spinal cord injuries among senior citizens (age 70 and above) has increased five times in the past 30 years, as...
Handgun surcharge urged for research
Paralyzed patients, advocates make plea
MacArthur Williams was shot in Roxbury as he changed a tire on his Hyundai so he could go to work...
Are you a Woman with a SCI who has been injured for at least...
This is a request for women with SCI (aged 18 or older) who are both employed and unemployed to participate in an on-line research...
Dedicated to preventing injuries
CANTON, Mo. — Penny Lorenz isn't bitter about the car crash 24 years ago that left her with a severe spinal cord injury.
"Life is...
‘Some people don’t do a thimbleful of what he did in life’
Lawrence "Larry" Solomon was a can-do guy.
He was an all-American gymnast on his East Coast high school and college teams.
An accident during practice at...
