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Tag Archives: spinal cord injury
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for May 2017
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. NIDILRR-funded Research: Aquatic exercise therapy for people with Parkinson disease: A randomized controlled trial (J75815) (English). This article describes a study that evaluated … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged acquired brain injury, aquatherapy, aquatic exercise, aquatic therapy, assistive technology, cerebral palsy, children, education, employment, Halliwick Method, hydrotherapy, ms, multiple sclerosis, NIDILRR, osteoarthritis, Parkinson disease, physical therapy, Recreational therapy, rehabilitation, SCI, special eduacation, spinal cord injury, TBI
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Is there a difference between recreational therapy and activity programs?
Recently, we wrote about recreational therapy. However, if you have visited a long-term care center or similar facility, you may have heard of their activity program. You might be wondering: Are activity programs the same as recreational therapy? There are … Continue reading
Chronic pain and disability: Pain Awareness Month
The American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA) defines chronic pain as “ongoing or recurrent pain, lasting beyond the usual course of acute illness or injury or more than 3 to 6 months, and which adversely affects the individual’s well-being.” In other … Continue reading
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Tagged #ChronicPain, ACPA, Burn Injury, chronic pain, Chronic Pain Awareness Month, Disabilities, disability, MSKTC, NARIC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, pain, people with disabilities, physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, research, SCI, spinal cord injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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ACL and NIDILRR designate 14 new SCI Model System Centers
As part of their celebration of National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) announced the designation of 14 new Spinal Cord Injury Model System Centers across the US: September is National Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) … Continue reading
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Tagged ACL, model system centers, NIDILRR, research, spinal cord injury
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It’s Almost National SCI Awareness Month and We’re Celebrating with Even More Research!
This was one of our most popular posts for 2015 and now we’ve UPDATED IT for 2016 (including international research)! In addition to these selections, we’ll be sharing a host of ready-to-use resources from the NIDILRR community and elsewhere. Follow … Continue reading
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Tagged National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month, NIDILRR, research, SCI, SCI Model Systems, spinal cord injury
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for April 2016
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged employment, MSKTC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, rehabilitation, RERC, SCI, sexuality, spinal cord injury, technology
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 11 to Friday, April 15
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Funding: Google awards $20 million to 29 innovative disability nonprofits (Gizmag) Google has announced 29 winners of its Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, which it launched in May last year to invest in non-profit … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged ADAPT, aging in rural areas, antidepressants, brain implant, clemastine fumarate, Click2Speak, club foot, cognitive behavior therapy, eye movements of children with autism, Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, hands-free on-screen keyboard, hoarding disorder, IndieGo wheelchair, Miraclefeet, multiple sclerosis, satelllite clinics, spinal cord injury, telemedicine, wayfinding GPS for blind
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New SCI resource from the Paralysis Resource Center
Our friends at the Paralysis Resource Center have published a new guide: Don’t Call It a Miracle: The Movement to Cure Spinal Cord Injury by Kate Willette. The 238-page guide covers the basic biology of the spinal cord and what happens … Continue reading
Posted in Guide, Uncategorized
Tagged clinical trials, paralysis, Paralysis Resource Center, Plain language, spinal cord injury
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To Your Health!
It’s National Health Education Week, sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education. Health education range from large-scale campaigns, like tobacco-free kids or getting 30 minutes of exercise, to outreach to underserved communities, like bringing farmer’s markets to inner city neighborhoods. … Continue reading
