Tag: Quality Of Life
Long-term Care Givers
For Better and For Worse
No one plans on spinal cord injury. “No one” includes you–the spouse, the family, the person who provides care–as well...
Am I Ready For A Van?
Most spinal cord injury survivors who are used to driving a car aren’t too excited about switching to a modified van. “They’re too big....
Bladder Cancer
You may have heard it from physicians, from family members who have been doing their reading, or from spinal cord injury survivors who go...
Colostomies: A Radical Approach to Bowel Mangement
It freaks many people out, but to some spinal cord injury survivors, a colostomy is a perfectly reasonable way to manage those cranky bowels....
Fatigue
We’re hearing more and more about fatigue these days. Who cares? Isn’t fatigue just part of getting older? Well, the truth is, new data...
Heart Disease
What's all the confusion about "complete" and "incomplete?" Complete usually means "total" or "whole," while incomplete usually means "unfinished," or "not yet perfect." Although...
Electrical exercise system gives paralysis sufferers power to recover strength
People affected by paralysis could enjoy more independence, better health and a higher quality of life thanks to an innovative system designed to improve...
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...
The 3rd Annual Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion fundraising event shows an increase of...
VANCOUVER, June 16 /CNW/ - More than 35,000 Canadians came out on all kinds of wheels and rolled for hope this past weekend at...
