Tag: Travel
First steps on a long road
One evening this March, at a military hospital in northeast China, Paraplegic Jason McCue moved his legs.
It happened when the 31-year-old Calgarian was watching...
Violence taxes Baghdad’s spinal injury hospital
Some patients wait a year to get only such care in the city
Baghdad -- Mohammed Abdul Hussein moans as he tries to shift his...
Still living life to the fullest
A lot has happened to Andrew Robinson since he was injured last June in a car-bomb explosion in Iraq.
The 24-year-old former North Hanover resident,...
On the Rebound
Tyler Malone’s not letting a wheelchair keep him down
Tyler Malone wants to do something no one else has ever done, something that could affect...
‘You have to learn how to start over again’
The day was supposed to be like any other. At age 51 Darryl Neighbour, the boss of a construction company he co-owned, was finishing...
THE HANDS OF AN ARTIST
The last thing Kevin White remembers from the evening of his accident is the brilliant June sky and thinking "what a beautiful sunset it...
Someone to lean on
Living with a spinal cord injury is like riding a roller coaster, said Nathan Walters, who suffered an injury that left him in...
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...
Vet Travels to Mexico To Receive Stem Cell Treatment
(KABC-TV) - Stem cell therapy is the next frontier in medicine. Scientists hope to someday use stem cells as the ultimate body-repair kit, growing...
‘The injury doesn’t change who you are,’ says Coquitlam man
Rick Hansen made history with his journey around the world but it was only the beginning of what would become his lifelong dream.
With the...
