Tag: Physical Rehabilitation
Murderball: This documentary is the wheel deal
It is relatively easy to make a film about people in wheelchairs and manipulate the viewer into feeling sorry for these poor, disabled souls.
But...
Murderball – About the Movie
ABOUT THE FILM
Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than-life personalities, MURDERBALL, winner of the Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for Editing...
Teens with spinal cord injuries
Seventeen-year-old Van Brooks felt somewhat out of place talking to adults with spinal cord injuries after his own paralyzing accident last fall. Sure, the...
Insulting Their Injuries
When President Bush Says Stem Cell Research ‘devalues Life,' What Is He Telling The Gravely Injured Troops Back From Iraq?
More than 12,000 soldiers...
A father apart with lots of heart
For Brian Vail of Mount Gilead, the answer has been to live for 10 years with the debilitating Lou Gehrig's Disease, or amyotrophic lateral...
Paralysis patients take a chance
BEIJING — In January 2004, Kim Allen suddenly began having trouble turning the key in her car's ignition. All too quickly, a spreading weakness...
Patient transfer serves as evacuation drill
An imaginary crisis yesterday morning triggered the mock evacuation of patients from the UPMC Rehabilitation Hospital in Squirrel Hill to a safe harbor at...
Pediatric center to offer novel rehabilitation approach for spinal cord injury
Kennedy Krieger Institute today opens the doors of its International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, the world's first center focused on Rehabilitation and restoration...
Iams Donates Millionth Dollar to Canine Companions for Independence
Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) announced that it has received its millionth dollar in support from The Iams Company. Iams' support of the Healthy...
Cutting-Edge Surgeries
When I directed PVA’s Spinal Cord Research Foundation a decade ago, function-restoring interventions for spinal cord injury (SCI) were rare and usually off the...
