Tag: Physical Rehabilitation
Ready to return, Oliver tells Caracella: don’t rush it
CHAMPION jockey Damien Oliver, who resumes riding at Flemington on Saturday after a 15-month absence with a career-threatening spinal injury similar to that of...
INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION PROGRAM (ICP)
If you do start urinating, Intermittent Catheterization is done to release the remaining urine from the bladder and measure the amount of urine left...
THE PATIENT
Patients consistently report that it helps to talk about their feelings. If you talk to the members of your...
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
THE GRIEVING PROCESS
SCI can be so traumatic that most patients and their families and friends go through the four...
Access to Recreation
Access to recreation, pool lifts, all terrain wheelchairs, wheel chair ramps, shower chair, beach wheelchairs, standing frame, patient lift, rehabilitation equipment, disability products
USA Diving accident survivor Brooke Burns helps raise awareness about diving injury prevention
It's a startling fact that as many as 1,000 spinal cord injuries occur each year due to shallow water diving. With swimming pools officially...
Ocala author shares tragic story of paralysis
OCALA, Fla. - Ronald Schultz started writing his new book almost 40 years ago, when he thought his life was over.
He was 22 years...
Coach hopeful of gymnast’s recovery
Yoichi Tomita describes Andrew Donnellan as one of the most "powerful" gymnasts he has ever coached.
And that muscular build, Tomita said, might help the...
Parents of injured 14-year-old gymnast stay hopeful
14-year-old Richland girl recovering from spinal cord injury after tumbling accident
The parents of a Richland teenager hurt in a gymnastics accident spoke yesterday of...
Jockey Murphy Bruises Spinal Cord in Fall
Jockey Cindy Murphy remained hospitalized Friday after she was thrown in the fifth race at Prairie Meadows Thursday night. According to her husband, Travis...
