Cerebral Palsy Requires Ongoing Physiotherapy Treatment
She was a twenty-year-old university student and was losing her ability to walk. She had been diagnosed at a very young age with cerebral palsy. She walked a little later than most, and with a visibly different pattern than the rest of us, but she was perfectly...
Neurological Injury and Pain
I will never forget this amazing woman. When she first came to see me she was about 20 years post-stroke. She had worked very hard to regain her mobility, and as a commitment to improving her overall health she had been going to the gym regularly without fail since...
Lifelong Recovery from Neurological Injury
“Hey, that hurt,” he said. “I beg your pardon?” I replied. We stared at each other astounded. Given that I had pretty much just raked a forearm up the side of his thigh, one would not think this sort of statement would be surprising. But it was absolutely astonishing...
The Clinicians Behind the Science
“Antibiotics don’t actually work.” My jaw dropped and I stared like a deer in the headlights. WHAT?? After all, these words had just come out of the mouth of the Chief of infectious disease. At the time we were working together in the cystic fibrosis clinic at the...