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  • RSD Patient Gets Relief Through Medical Marijuana
  • Deb Aughenbough knows firsthand how helpful marijuana can be in reducing the symptoms of chronic pain. In 1992, after suffering a left knee sprain, Deb...
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  • Reduced-Cost and Free Eye Care
  • It’s hard to make ends meet at any time, particularly in a recession. Eye exams should be done annually, and your glasses updated. Your age may be changing...
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  • Staying Motivated While Living with a Disability
  • Living with a disability brings extra challenges to daily living. Someone recently commented to me, “Imagine the daily choices I make, knowing that on...
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  • Isolation Prevalent in People with Disabilities
  • It was a moment in time that could never be recalled—a split second that would change a life. One, two, three steps, lunge. There was an ill-advised dive...
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  • The Chanda Plan Foundation: Making Alternative Health Care Available
  • Chanda Hinton is on a mission: to make alternative and complementary therapy available to people with physical disabilities. To accomplish this, in 2006...
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  • Integrative Health Heals Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans
  • The battle-hardened and emotionally-scarred Marine walks slowly toward the horse, head bowed and hand outstretched in a gesture of openness and equality...
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  • Aspirin Should Be Taken at Night to Combat Hypertension
  • If you are at risk for developing high blood pressure, recent research suggests that aspirin can help – but only if you take it at night. Although blood...
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  • Do You Know Your Body Mass Index (BMI)?
  • According to a study published by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Obesity (Oct. 2008), if current trends continue...
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  • Pressure Sores: Reducing the Risks
  • For anyone with impaired mobility and sensation, a pressure sore should be considered a big red flag, marked “DANGER” when it comes to personal care. We...
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  • Faster, Better, Stronger: An Elite Athlete’s Training Manual For the Rest of Us
  • This is a book that can benefit all of us, regardless of athletic ability or physical capability. The principles espoused will make anyone healthier and...
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  • Physical Fitness for People with Disabilities Important
  • Persons with disabilities are less likely to engage in regular moderate physical activities than persons without disabilities. Changing this reality, however...
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  • Pilates is Accessible for People with Disabilities
  • "Physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind, fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily...