Judge rules city can't stain Staten Island ferry victim's image
By narmer
No one disputes that McMillan, 43, is a quadriplegic who needs round-the-clock care that will cost millions of dollars over his life. But city attorney Wayne Meehan argued Friday that since McMillan is suing for loss of enjoyment in ...
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Care Factor: 0
By Ms Rachy
As a quadriplegic I'm not entitled to any sort of ongoing financial help to obtain regular physiotherapy for which I am in great need, but were
MY SHOULDER PAIN AND MAGIC WHEELS
By House
Because of my position as medical director of rehabilitation and the fact that I am a C7 quadriplegic, I'm often asked to demo products. Timely for me, the Magic Wheels Company came out with their new version of their four-speed geared ...
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AN AMAZING MIRALCE!!
By Recent Updates(Recent Updates)
She was a C-5 quadriplegic and was in very bad shape. I immediately started thinking of my friend Jennifer, this was her injury. I kept watching the show and the young girl went to a rehab center in Atlanta called Shepherds? ...
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Disabled Winnipeg MP visits Canada
Winnipeg-area MP Steven Fletcher joined a group of military brass in Alert, Nunavut, this week, becoming the first quadriplegic to visit Canada's northernmost military station.
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The Funkless Fall
By Angie(Angie)
I don't know whether the little writer in me senses academia looming on the horizon and she is cowering in fear, or if she is just so bored with the fiction she's currently reading that she has become something of a quadriplegic. ...
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Shot and left for dead in the street, dog starts a new life
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Only time will tell if Little Lance has suffered any permanent neurological damage as a result of his spinal-cord injury, Carlson said. ...
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Injury doesn't keep him down
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson,MI,USA
Doctors told him his spinal cord injury meant he would never walk again. They also told him he would never be able to use his hands again, ...
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Baker player broke vertebra
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
"He's suffered major trauma to his spinal cord but does not have a severed spinal cord, which gives him a chance to make a recovery." Johnson, a 6-foot-1, ...
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Bakersfield Disabled Man Feeling State's Budget Mess
KGET 17 - Bakersfield,CA,USA
David is a quadriplegic who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. The 42 year old says the help he needs every day will be stripped away if the governor's budget ...
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Vancouver's quadriplegic mayor to carry torch in Paralympic Games
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
RICHMOND, BC-In a bittersweet bookend to his single term as Vancouver's mayor, quadriplegic Sam Sullivan will participate in the torch relay at next month's ...
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Ditka Aims To Help Disabled 'Gridiron Warriors'
NBC5.com - Chicago,IL,USA
Among the athletes benefiting from the partnership is former Eisenhower High School star Rasul "Rocky" Clark, who was rendered a quadriplegic eight years ...
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Tail Regeneration in Xenopus laevis as a Model for Understanding ...
Journal of Dental Research (subscription) - UK
The tadpole tail contains spinal cord, muscle, vasculature, and other terminally differentiated cell types and can fully regenerate itself through tissue ...
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Family, friends rally to help chef fight back from injury
Baltimore Sun - United States
At the hospital, doctors found that the accident had crushed four vertebrae in Hartung's spine and partially severed his spinal cord. ...
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Borehamwood man to swim length of the Channel at The Venue
Borehanwood Times - UK
An Aspire spokeswoman added: "Spinal cord injury has a devastating effect on the 1200 people who become paralysed each year. The individual affected will ...
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Two Oakdale men headed to Beijing for paralympics
Oakdalel Lake Elmo Review - North St. Paul,MN,USA
In that year, Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. ...
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National Grammy-nominated, gospel artist will give free concert ...
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
According to Wright's MySpace page, he is still recuperating with a severe spinal cord injury. Dyson said Kee's presence in Horry County will help lift ...
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The Science Behind Refrigerated Baby's 'Miracle' Revival
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
... Bills football player Kevin Everett recovered last year from severe spinal cord damage thanks in part to induced hypothermia treatment after his injury. ...
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Wheelchairs, start your engines....
By Jason Siegel
... comparable to those for members of the general public." The lawsuit was brought by a quadriplegic man who missed some of the best parts of races when fans in front of him got up to cheer, blocking his view. Read the full NLJ story.
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Setbacks don't slow Vanderbilt co-captain
My Tennessean.com - Nashville,TN,USA
After taking a redshirt his first year on campus, Smith contracted acute transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. ...
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Despite accident, Ambrose QB has an enthusiasm that can't be sacked
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... recuperating from a spinal cord injury he suffered diving down a makeshift slide and ramp into about a foot of Mississippi River water on a beach near ...
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When your back can't bear the wear and tear
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
The spine also has the important function of carrying a column within it, called the spinal canal, which contains within it the spinal cord, which carries ...
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Miracle Michael will walk again
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Spinal cord injury affects about 12000 Australians, with 300-400 new cases each year. Most are caused by risk-taking behaviour, usually by young males.
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Speed Read
Times and Transcript - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
Durepos, who is going to his fourth Paralympic Games, sustained a spinal cord injury in a motorcycle accident in 1988 and began playing wheelchair ...
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Gamez has big day in Yellowstone Downs opener
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
Find Sara, a 7-year-old thoroughbred, likely suffered a spinal cord injury during the accident and died on the MetraPark track, according to Kelly Manzer, ...
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Youth minister adjusts to 'new normal' with spinal injury
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA
... who has spent the last three months at the Shepherd Center, an Atlanta hospital that specializes in catastrophic spinal cord injuries. ...
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Blowing away a sniff of a cure
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
As well as following an intensive daily exercise regime, he's also undergone courses of stem cell treatment for the spinal cord injury that has confined him ...
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Essendon doctors to be honoured at **** Reynolds lunch
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Fortunately, Clark escaped with spinal shock rather than the suspected spinal cord damage and was back playing a couple of weeks later. ...
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W.Va. soldier on road to recovery after being shot in neck
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
"There is a great spinal cord injury place there, state-of-the-art equipment," Finney said. "He will probably be there for a year to a year-and-a-half. ...
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Teens lack judgment when driving, trauma study finds
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Participants toured an intensive care unit and met a young person who had suffered a mild traumatic or spinal cord injury. ...
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Worker thrown from forklift rendered quadriplegic
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly - Boston,MA,USA
On June 17, 2006, he died from a brain hemorrhage, which the plaintiff's medical expert testified was causally related
Quadriplegic Hilary Lister forced to halt solo round British ...
BYM News (press release) - Gibraltar,Spain
... unable to complete her attempt to sail solo around the British Isles this year, aiming to become the first female quadriplegic to complete such a feat. ...
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Documents reveal new details in wheelchair dumping
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA
Sterner said he repeatedly told Marshall-Jones he was a quadriplegic and that he was sitting calmly when he felt himself "being lunged forward but at a very ...
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