If you’re in college right now, or if you ever have ever been, you know the pressure put on you to maintain a high GPA. The pressure is such that you may feel you won’t survive if your GPA drops below 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. I’m here to tell…
I have a confession. I used a walker since I was in pre-school until I was 10 years old, when I walked independently without it for a few years. Throughout this time, I remember feeling very embarrassed and ashamed of my walker. While feelings of embarrassment are normal…
Lately, I’ve been experiencing something I never had to deal with before: Chronic fatigue. My pain levels have been higher and more frequent than ever. This has been going on for about a month and, while I’m happy to say I appear to be past the worst and am…
The medical device company MYOLYN has submitted a 510(k) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its functional electrical stimulation (FES) stationary bikes — MyoCycle Home and the MyoCycle Pro — to stimulate muscles during exercise. The bikes can be used by people experiencing muscle weakness or who have lower body paralysis…
A multicenter study revealed that 38.1% of parents of teens with cerebral palsy (CP) have significant stress levels requiring professional assistance. The stress is especially caused by the behavioral disturbances of the teen. The study, “Family adaptation to cerebral palsy in adolescents: A European multicenter study,”…
About a month ago, I took on the responsibility of a beautiful white-and-gray male baby cockatiel, which I lovingly named Buddy. Buddy was the love child of my mom’s male and female cockatiels. They’ve had so many babies! In fact, about a week ago, I adopted and…
You’ve been putting this off for at least a week. Your heart feels like it’s going to burst out of your chest as you dial the phone. Your heart thumps so loudly in your ears you can barely hear the phone beeping back at you. Your eyes suddenly…
Learning to play a musical instrument could improve cerebral palsy (CP) patients’ hand movement and strengthen their sensorimotor skills, researchers said in the journal Neural Plasticity. Conventional CP rehabilitation does not engages the entire brain like playing an instrument, but few studies have explored the idea, researchers from Technical…
I have a confession to make: I am a Netflix list hoarder. I see things, I read about them, I add them to “My List” and I go on, probably to watch something else. Before you know it, my Netflix list is countless titles long; maybe, once…
Another year is starting and the family holidays are behind us. During those holidays, did your friends and family pull out old pictures of you and tell stories about different times in your life? Sometimes, tales about before you got sick or when you were “better?” In my case,…