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Recovery a lifelong project for therapy center founder

Clinton Township — Charlie Parkhill talks with his hands. It's remarkable, given that 17 years ago, an accident left him unable to move his...

Quadriplegic Chad Graham to drive off-road buggy 4800km from Kalgoorlie to Cobar to raise...

CHAD Graham’s left hand, you notice, is strapped onto the steering wheel of his customised buggy. Not around the wheel. Onto it. “My fingers and hand,...

The rewiring of Tim Raglin

The team’s goal is audacious: to restore movement to the right hand of Tim Raglin, a 44-year-old quadriplegic whose fingers have been frozen in place since August 2007.

Q&A: Nerve Transfer Surgery

Q. What is nerve transfer surgery? A. Nerve transfer is a surgical technique that’s used to restore muscle function or sensation after a serious injury....

Stone’s will: Quadriplegic inspires Cayuse students

Joe Stone has used a wheelchair for four and a half years. In that time the 29-year-old Missoula resident has become the first known quadriplegic...

New technology helps mental, physical recovery

AUSABLE FORKS — Standing among the friends and family gathered at the Jan. 1 wedding of Michaela Bushey and Kyle Devins were a trio...

Israeli Traveller Conquers Heaphy Track in Wheelchair

Arnon Amit from Israel arrived in Karamea at the top of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand on January 2,...

NY bride walks down aisle making a dream come true

AUSABLE FORKS, N.Y. - An Ausable Forks woman is starting 2015 by making a dream come true. An accident six years ago left Michaela Bushey...

Fearless like a child — overcoming adversity | Jack Kavanagh | TEDxTallaght

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMvMW6YNXxI Jack Kavanagh a young student broke his neck doing something he had done hundreds of times that summer. Here he tells his inspirational story...

Exercise brings hope to those paralysed by spinal injuries

Exercise therapy research at the University of Newcastle has brought profound improvements to limbs that were paralysed, doctors say. The award-winning laboratory research is bringing...