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Braceworks recommends Maximum Healthcare and Mobility in Calgary, an AADL Approved Wheelchair Provider, for exceptional customer support and service for all your home health care product needs, including wheelchairs. Note that AADL
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Practical Approach to Common MSK Problems in Community Practice. Friday, April 22, 2016 Health Sciences Centre, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB Residents in Friday School. UCSD Photo. This workshop offers a practical approach to
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The IDEAS group was formed as a means of providing multi-disciplinary services to children and their families. Of the eight people who started IDEAS in August 1992, Karen McIntosh remains as the director. New associates have been
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Cause and Effect Foundation is an Early Intervention Program committed to delivering individualized programming to each child within their natural environments including preschool, home, and community. Programs and services promote
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Staffed by parents that have been there, The Children’s Link Society is Calgary’s first and only special needs connection. Whether newly diagnosed or struggling through critical life events, our service connects parents with the
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As the population ages and people live longer in bad shape, the number of older Americans who fall and suffer serious, even fatal, injuries is soaring. Read Part 2. Mrs. Hammer remains independent after her fall, and is now more
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Zayid’s TED talk about embracing her challenges has over 7 million views. “I must warn you: I’m not inspirational,” she jokes. Maysoon Zayid. TED photo. Maysoon Zayid describes herself as a “Palestinian
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Andiamo is building and delivering an integrated clinical service and software platform that uses 3D scanning, 3D printing, and predictive analytics to create custom orthotics for disabled children.What happens when you listen instead
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SwiftKey released a new app on Thursday designed to give users with learning disabilities (those living with autism, for example) a non-verbal means of communication with friends and family. Early intervention with parent-led autism
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Tai chi can improve the symptoms of knee osteoarthritis as much as — or more than — standard physical therapy, new research suggests. Québec Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Laird Harrison, Medscape
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Buying Syona’s shoes is a challenge and Anchel shares why. I have a serious thing for shoes — I always have. My parents warned Dilip about my addiction when we started dating. Before I got pregnant I justified my shopping, very
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One Irish dad in Donegal has made the most incredible Hallowe’en costume for his son. by samedifference1 October 30, 2015 Oisin Roberts was seven when he first talked about wanting a Halloween costume that incorporated his
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Almost 30 years ago, Nike was asked to collaborate on a movie that would feature scenes set in the futuristic world of 2015. The brand was challenged to imagine sneakers that would suit the inhabitants of the advanced era. The
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The aim of this review is to highlight how certain behaviors, habits and lifestyles may be involved in the onset and progression of OA and to summarize the principal risk factors involved in the development of this complicated joint
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Children with cerebral palsy have complex healthcare needs and often require complex multidisciplinary care. It is important for clinicians to understand which approaches to healthcare service delivery for this population are
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Ageing, says Richard Suzman, is “reshaping our world.” Like climate change, “it seems inexorable, and is gradual”, he says; but the global impact of ageing on health, disability, wellbeing, and poverty might eventually turn
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Results from a population-based survey. Background There is a perception that the impacts of arthritis are greatest among older adults. However, the effect of age on health-related outcomes in individuals with arthritis has not been
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Donald Sutherland plays President Snow in the Hunger Games films. Sutherland contracted polio as a child and developed a love of reading while bedridden. He went on to become an accomplished actor, and has appeared in over 130 films.
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Like Instagram for doctors, Figure 1 app now has 500,000 users. One billion cases viewed 18 Sep 2015. Figure 1 Inc.’s Richard Penner, left and Gregory Levey show their medical image-sharing app Tuesday. Glenn Lowson for The Globe
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Most of what we know about prescription drugs and medical devices comes from industry-funded clinical trials. Does the source of funding affect study findings? Daniel Zender. Austin Frakt, THE NEW HEALTH CARE in The New York Times
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As any parent at bedtime knows, getting kids to do something they don’t want to is one of life’s biggest challenges. In the late 1990s, physicians at the Alberta Children’s Hospital were looking for inspiration on how to coax
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It’s hard to look at data like this and not be concerned about conflicts of interest. There’s a reason that 10-cent coupons exist; it’s because they work. Financial interests absolutely do influence our decision making. Magoz.
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Many of the systems designed to help students with disabilities disappear after they complete their education. Photo Mike Segar, Reuters. Mikhail Zinshteyn, The Atlantic June 4, 2015 The shift from high school to college, or from
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By Hank Black, Lower Extremity Review July 2015 ▽ Table of Contents Introduction Medico-legal landscape Driving simulators Immobilizing and adaptive devices Driver evaluation programs Individual recommendations References
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Ruby Hamilton is a 10-year-old girl who lives in the UK. Like many kids her age, she enjoys playing games and watching movies. However, due to complications at birth, she was starved of oxygen for nearly 30 minutes, resulting in
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Web accessibility for museums. The Metropolitan Museum of Art + The New School for Design at Parsons, New York. A group of students with disabilities visiting the Museum’s Cast Collection galleries, Wing B, Gallery 40.
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Following his injury in 2013, Martyn Ashton, trials legend, creator of Road Bike Party 2, and, above all family man and bike rider, began his inspirational journey to get back on track. Joined by his friends Danny MacAskill, Chris
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Posted by Kate Torgovnick May, TEDBlog November 28, 2012 Janine Shepherd, Pilot – A broken body is not a broken person. Athlete Janine Shepherd was rendered a partial paraplegic when she was hit by a truck during an Olympic
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Disability Visibility with Along Wong. Exploring the provocative side of disability. 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and there are a number of efforts underway to publicly acknowledge that
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Thanks to Taylor Oetelaar’s unique passion for history, architecture and computational fluid dynamics, we can now imagine what it would be like to lounge in a third-century Roman bath that was heated by multiple fires below a
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