Category Archives: Cerebral Palsy

AUGUSTA (WQOW) - Jennifer Hinze and her 17-year-old son, Nick, are the duo behind "Nick's Dog Treats", a company that does more than sell dog biscuits; it builds a future. At 11 months old, after being born premature, Nick was diagnosed with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. "There are all different types of CP but that just means he's involved in all four limbs," Jennifer explained, before adding, "Nick is basically like any other kid, he just needs help with a lot of different things." So when Jennifer, who works as a substitute teacher in Eau Claire County, noticed teenagers graduating without jobs, she decided to take matters into her own hands Continue reading →

Born with severe cerebral palsy, 71-year-old Clark Borden, of Lakeview, has endured numerous surgeries and a pervasive pain thats intensified with age. But he refused to let his illness stop him from achieving a longtime dream: becoming a registered voter. On Sept Continue reading →

Fargo began its run on FX TV network in 2014. Using the themes and motifs of the classic Coen Brothers 1996 film, also named Fargo, creator Noah Hawleys Midwestern crime anthology series has always seemed to tell a story larger than itself. Continue reading →

Supplied Nadia Mackle spent four months in rehab after being paralysed from the chest down in a car crash in 2015. (File photo) A Kaikura woman was left shaken after being targeted by Rangioras latest self-appointed parking warrior. Nadia Mackle has used a wheelchair since being paralysed in a crash in 2015, when she was 23. Continue reading →

Birth injuries refer to any type of harm to babies that happen during or near the time of their birth. Birth injuries normally occur due to the physical pressures that happen during the birthing processes. Continue reading →

By Express News Service CHENNAI: Stay indoors, do not touch any public surface . These words, over the past seven months, have been nothing short of a nightmare. For the most part of my life, Ive had to stay indoors, locked away from the outside world Continue reading →

Watching his son Sora crouched low on a skateboard recently, gliding smoothly down a ramp at Adventure Park in Powell, Tristan Chamberlain thought of all the things that doctors had said Sora would never do. Born in 2015 with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, the outlook for Sora was uncertain. The syndrome affects about 1 in 15,000 children andtypically leaves themwith low muscle tone, abnormal growthand intellectual disabilities, among other issues Continue reading →

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Dr. Edwin Payne, the Fairfield Center for disAbilities and Cerebral Palsy, left, poses with Steven Schaeffer and Lowell Bixler as the men present Dr. Continue reading →

News Release Monday, September 28, 2020 NIH-funded study points to genes that control the establishment of neural circuits during early development. In an article published in Nature Genetics, researchers confirm that about 14% of all cases of cerebral palsy, a disabling brain disorder for which there are no cures, may be linked to a patients genes and suggest that many of those genes control how brain circuits become wired during early development. Continue reading →