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A raccoon bite on the arm doesn’t seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis. After days of treatment for recurring infection, it becomes obvious that her arm must be amputated. Dr. Ajay Seth, the son of immigrant parents from India and a local...

Fortunately, chair yoga is an accessible exercise that anyone can do—even seniors with body aches and mobility issues. With regular practice, your body will start to loosen up, feel more energized, and you’ll become more confident in your ability to do your daily tasks and move around. Experience beginner-friendly but powerful chair yoga poses that build strength, enhance flexibility, relieve pain, and improve balance.

Having a strong core can improve posture, relieve aches and pains, prevent falls, and help you feel more capable and confident in your body. 6-Minute Core Strength takes you step-by-step through the simple science of building core strength quickly, safely, and effectively, with little or no equipment.

Do you feel hopeless about your communication skills or those of someone you love? Don't despair! This guide summarizes contemporary communication knowledge and offers resources for further study to empower those on the autism spectrum and everyone else.

Take charge of your health and change your outlook. Life is stressful. With busy schedules and daily burdens, it’s easy to find relief in unhealthy comforts. If you live with a major medical condition, achieving optimal health is an even greater challenge. But it’s your health. Be proactive and take back control with prehabilitation. In Healing in Advance, Dr. Alexander Watson discusses how prehabilitation helps improve baseline health, detailing its tangible benefits in surgical outcomes, preoperative health, and quality of life.

You Can Reclaim Your Brain—And Your Life. If you’re still struggling with brain fog, memory loss, exhaustion, or emotional overwhelm long after your brain injury, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to stay stuck. Recovery is possible. The secret? Taking action instead of waiting for change. Dr. Brody Miller—neurorehabilitation specialist, brain injury survivor, and TBI researcher—guides you through a 90-day blueprint designed to rewire your brain, restore your memory, and rebuild your life.

In Disability Is Human, she brings the same energy and insights from her popular presentations and workshops to nearly every industry—where Dr. Cawthon has empowered, encouraged, and supported thousands of people in their journey toward greater access.

Afin de promouvoir la santé sexuelle des personnes en situation de handicap, le CIVA lance Sexualité et handicap, un guide pour les personnes aidante.

This audiobook gives five simple yet surprising hacks to assist you with adjusting your gluose levels and right your side effects without starting to eat better or surrendering the food varieties you enjoy.

They were part of the Baby Boomer vanguard, three boys thrown together in a 1950s Southern California subdivision looking like most other boys of that era. Under coonskin hats they ran free all summer long inventing their own games and endless challenges, fought imaginary Indians and pirates in a nearby orange grove, and on occasion battled a neighborhood bully or two. Their greatest enemy, however, was an infectious disease called polio – a paralyzing scourge that maimed and too-often killed little kids.

Learning to adapt to life after being diagnosed with chronic pain and illness is extremely difficult. Life as you knew it, along with your hopes and dreams for your life, literally gets turned upside down in an instant. This comes with a lot of deep complicated emotions from grief, sadness, anger, frustration to living in a constant state of uncertainty and stress. Most people assume that if you get sick, a medical professional like Dr. House will work endlessly until they have answers and a cure so you can go back to living the life you used to know.

Poco se habla de cómo viven y disfrutan las personas que tienen una discapacidad: ceguera, sordera, parálisis cerebral o autismo no son un impedimento para sentir y generar placer...

Arthrose ist die häufigste Gelenkerkrankung. Betroffene leiden häufig unter Schmerzen und Funktionseinschränkungen. Die Arthrose Sprechstunde ist ein Ratgeber für Patienten mit Gelenkverschleiß. "Gelenke erhalten statt ersetzen" ist das Ziel des erfahrenen Orthopäde und Sportmediziners Dr. Markus Klingenberg. Der Knorpel-Doc vermittelt unterhaltsam den aktuellen Wissensstand zu Arthrose und ihre Behandlungsmöglichkeiten. Der Leser lernt die entscheidenden vier Säulen für seine Gelenkgesundheit kennen: das eigene Verhalten, die medizinischen Therapiemöglichkeiten, Bewegung und Ernährung.

You are more than your limits. Choosing to see herself as more than a person with a disability and wheelchair user, Lolo chooses to live a bold and courageous life now because representation matters. She created this intersectional guide to provide tools for people with disabilities to thrive in personal growth, independence, and community building. Add this guide to your list of inclusion books!

Dans une société marquée par le souci de la performance, le handicap nest pas le bienvenu. Un coup dur ? Pire ! Cest un coup tordu, un acte de trahison de la vie. Ce séisme de forte magnitude ébranle nos convictions, le socle sur lequel les rêves et les idéaux sont construits. Londe de choc se répercute de manière insoupçonnée, durable et profonde... jusquà sinviter aussi dans lentourage de la personne handicapée.

In this bestselling and award-winning candid memoir, Jodi Orgill Brown recounts how her life was transformed when, as a thirty-three-year-old wife and mother, she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Unwilling to accept her new fate, Jodi's family searches for a doctor who will join their fight against the odds. But when the surgery that could save her life thrusts her into battle with a devastating spinal fluid leak and facial paralysis, even her own children fear her new appearance and physical failings. Jodi perseveres, even with an injured body and spirit.

En medio del dolor de ver a tu ser querido desvanecerse gradualmente, la frustración que trae consigo la situación y el estrés derivado de tus inmensas responsabilidades, logras infundir cada día con un amor inquebrantable. Tu paciencia y empatía brillan, arrojando una luz que asegura que incluso en medio de la neblina de la memoria, el paciente se sienta querido, seguro y comprendido.

The country is in a sexual funk, so what can we do about it? Discover the all-natural alternative that can improve sexual health safely—at any age. Authors Stuart W. Fine, M.D., and Brenda D. Adderley, M.H.A., examine the causes of decreased sexual desire in men and women and offer a simple 4-step plan for recapturing vigor and improving the sexual health of you and your mate. They offer practical advice to those suffering from sexual desire disorder, discuss the causes of the ailment, and suggest therapeutic techniques designed to reawaken sexual interest.

The Complete 2-in-1 Senior Exercise Collection brings you two best-selling wellness guides for adults over 60 who want to move better, feel stronger, and stay independent.

This is about the problems and the coping mechanisms with a positive approach to disability. That approach is very important to the lives of those who are handicapped.