Tag: Physical Rehabilitation

Firefighters, family join to help paralyzed teen

Volunteers double size of Cottage Hill home It was a summer day at Pensacola Beach spent with family and friends. Cory Jackson dashed across...

New Lift Now

Ricky James, paralyzed at 16 in an amateur competition, is back on his bike, riding, even if the thought of it makes his parents...

Rocket Technology used to Develop a Physical Therapy Device

NASA Technology Helping Injured U.S. Troops Patented NASA technology that originally enhanced robotics and sounding rockets is now aiding U.S. soldiers returning from overseas duty...

Boca quadriplegic fights to walk again

Kevin Mullin's life changed forever October 6, 2003. At 24, Mullin of Boca Raton was an athletic swimmer and scuba diver who landed a job...

NASA Technology Helping Injured U.S. Troops

Patented NASA technology that originally enhanced robotics and sounding rockets is now aiding U.S. soldiers returning from overseas duty with spinal cord or traumatic...

Two decades later, Hansen is still a man in motion

VANCOUVER -- With muscular shoulders dominating his powerful athletic frame and not a trace of age on his still-boyish face, Rick Hansen looks young...

Learning a new routine

Injured Tucson gymnast endures Rehabilitation in Colorado, where he begins to heal and adapts to life as a quadriplegic ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Drew Donnellan reaches...

Heat a danger for disabled

Those paralyzed can't detect effects of high temperatures Not quite a year after a surfing accident left him a quadriplegic, Robert "Buzz" Chmielewski was at...

Skin Deep: Imaging Technologies May Detect Pressure Ulcers

Skin Deep: Imaging Technologies May Detect Pressure Ulcers And Deep-tissue Injuries That Healthcare Workers May Miss For people with impaired mobility and reduced ability to...

QUADRIPLEGIC MOM WALKS: After gymnastics move goes wrong, a remarkable recovery

RANDOLPH - As a child, Diane Niles loved doing cartwheels. She found them easy - up and over. So when her 12-year-old daughter, Ashley,...