By Andrew Heffernan — 2009
Athletes and people with injuries are (finally) discovering the Feldenkrais Method: a gentle rehabilitation system that teaches the body to move as it should.
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How one teen is using her tragic injury to take down the warrior culture in sports.
Injuries, while hopefully infrequent, are often an unavoidable part of sport participation. While most injuries can be managed with little to no disruption in sport participation and other activities of daily living, some impose a substantial physical and mental burden.
The unspoken truths of physically and emotionally injured athletes.
Ouch – that pain is more than just physical.
There’s no right or wrong trajectory for adapting to disability.
The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.
A short article and podcast about how specially trained dogs can help veterans with traumatic stress, brain injury and PTSD.
More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.
Thirty extraordinary artists who survived brain injuries, but found a new craft, are exhibiting their work in London this month, many for the first time.
Jon Sarkin was working as a chiropractor when he suffered a massive stroke. Afterwards, the 35-year-old became a volatile visual artist with a ferocious need to create, as his brain tried to make sense of the world at large.