> It’s no fun recovering from a stroke and relearning to do simple things that were once totally natural. That’s being offset by new video games that refine patients motor skills by having them play games that, for once, actually look fun. It may not be fun—that’…
The PBS News Hour reports on technology that lets people control motion with their thoughts. The look of satisfaction on Cathy Hutchinson’s face after she has served herself coffee for the first time in fifteen years is one to treasure.…
> He appears to embrace Edmund Wilson’s argument in “The Wound and the Bow” that “superior strength” is “inseparable from disability” and disaster of various kinds. A review of Lives of the Novelists contains this gem, which should launch me on a study of Wilson. I firmly believe and…
Seen in rehab—a vendor’s motto sums up the rehab experience: No Plateau in Sight . I was also interested that I used the iPhone’s voice recorder during today’s session to record prompts from my therapist for home exercises.…
> Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. W.H. Auden, in an article about February House in The New York Times, 6 May…
Not exactly my experience, but that visual of running around a track littered with wheelchairs, parallel balrs, and other training equipment pretty much captures the feeling of the rehab experience. Via @mashable.…
> #DGovQt [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DGovQt&src=hash]: "It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts." Ella Fitzgerald — Disability.gov (@Disabilitygov) April 29, 2012 [https://twitter.com/Disabilitygov/statuses/196573498699812864]…
Trying the Empi system on my wrist. It’s pretty amazing—sort of like a Galvani response on my wrist. Is this what therapy has done for me—moved me down the chain of evolution to frog level? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, great. ScienceChicks [http://sciencechicks.tumblr.com/post/31402463990/lucia-galeazzi-galvani-1743-1788-was-the-wife-of] reveals…