Sports Provide a Welcome Outlet for the Disabled - In years past, a serious physical disability meant unemployment, isolation, and inactivity for many thousands of people. No longer. While the Ameri...
Xero Products Announces Three New Products Tailored to Meet the Needs of Prosthetic and Picc Patients and Cast Wearers - The Stay Dry™ concept has been expanded to meet the needs of amputees, patients with peripherally inserted central catheters...
Advances in Prosthetic Devices Offer Increased Freedom for Amputees - Strong but lightweight materials and advances in technology have translated into more comfort and higher function for amputees.In the past artific...
National Consulting for Orthotics and Prosthetics Is Fighting to Preserve Medical Device Care for the Handicapped - Lacombe, LA (ContentDesk) July 1, 2005 -- National Consulting for Orthotics and Prosthetics is making a decided effort to make medical devices such a...
New foot in the sand technology can solve many health problems - A vast array of after-market insoles has been merchandised through the years. Most of these consist of a bed of cushioning foam with only hints of ac...
Sports Assists? - Persons who have become disabled since birth and/or even due to accidents are more open-minded nowadays. They think of their situation as something th...
Sensor Systems Can Improve Quality of Life for Millions - Through recent advances in its Tactilus® plantar pressure measurement technology, Sensor Products LLC is now positioned to assist podiatrists, orthope...
In the past artific...
Support Groups: How to Make the Most of Them - Copyright 2006 Lynne Taetzsch
Over the past six years, I have belonged to two support groups, and they've both been helpful in different ways. In my...
Hard-wired for Exercise - Exercise will make you more fit, but that's only a small part of the story, according to Philip J. Goscienski, M.D. “Humans are designed for much more...
Surgical Biomaterials and Tissue Regeneration Technologies -
Plants, invertebrate animals, amphibians and even reptiles have the ability to regenerate lost or damaged body parts. In the case of lizards, f...
Help For Persistent Or Recurring Swelling -
Like the arteries, veins and capillaries that transport blood through our bodies, our bodies also contains an extensive drainage system that re...
Alternative Medicine vs Conventional Medicine - Pt 2 - In Part 1 we discussed the fact that alternative medicine (so called) was being used in ancient times long before conventional medicine came on the sc...
Don't Needlessly Suffer From Chronic Pain - Copyright 2005 Robert Gould
As a chronic pain sufferer, with a diagnosis of a herniated disc along with bone disc degenerative disease, for many year...
The Two Sides of Medicine - Throughout time there have always been two opposing points of view as to how to maintain good health, or how to regain it after having lost it. This c...
Vitamin D for the Disabled - Perhaps, the most important source vitamin D is sun exposure. The sun's ultraviolet rays cause vitamin D synthesis in the skin. Ten to fifteen minutes...
Accident at Work Claim - The Essentials - An accident at work claim has probably crossed your mind, and rightfully so; every year, thousands of hard working individuals are left injured...
Disability insurance - Disability insurance will allow you to keep a usable income even if you are disabled.Disability insurance is the best way to make sure that your incom...
Resources for Wheelchair Exercisers - Ask most people of the challenges they face following through with an exercise program and you're likely to hear the common complaints: Lack of motiva...
Freedom and Independence with Your Wheelchairs - Many people think that one is totally worthless when he becomes disabled. Disability always brings this notion but I strongly disagree with it. I've s...
Disability Insurance for the Long Term - Disability insurance covers you for an extended period of time. Should you be injured or take ill and as a result be unable to perform the duties of y...
What You Need To Know About Accident Health Insurance - When it comes to insurance, do you know exactly what accident health insurance is and ...
Health care costs are continually rising - Health insurance is the key to obtaining needed health care services, and those who lack insurance are less likely to get timely and appropriate care ...
Muscle Pain Relief: An Overview - After an auto mechanic spends hours under a car or a writer spends all day in front of a computer, their muscles later complain at this overextension....
Synvisc Treatment Can Be Legally Imported from Canada. - Montreal, Quebec (AffordableDrugs) December 11, 2004 – Synvisc, the popular treatment for osteoarthritis, can be legally imported from Canada. The com...
Your Insurance Claim - Medical Insights And Expenses - There's nothing that has a greater impact on evaluating a personal injury insurance claim than the damage done to your body, the medical bills that ar...
