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Your guide to pelvic floor health: What are pelvic floor stretches?

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Jun 11, 2024

Your pelvic floor is a group of muscles in your pelvis, found between your tailbone and pubic bone. These muscles are essential for everyday activities, such as healthy bowel and bladder function, but they can be weakened or damaged by...

Rehab patients gain strength, inspire others through art

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Oct 25, 2017

It’s often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about a painting of just one word? What started as a simple art therapy class is now an on-going source of inspiration. Art that inspires When...

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Driving change: Therapist pushes for driver rehabilitation in Japan

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Aug 12, 2017

Getting back behind the wheel after an injury is a major goal for patients in rehabilitation. After a spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury or stroke, even doing simple tasks on your own can be a challenge. Being able to...

Stuttering versus cluttering: What’s the difference?

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Jul 7, 2017

Many of us are familiar with stuttering — that frustrating moment when you’re trying to speak, but the words won’t come out right.But what about cluttering? Cluttering also affects a person’s ability to communicate. Stuttering and cluttering may seem similar, but there...

I’m Possible: Audrey Self’s story in her own words

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Jun 9, 2017

Until November 2013, my life was playing out just as I had imagined. From the outside looking in, I am sure my life looked “perfect.” I was almost finished with my first semester at Southern Methodist University (SMU). My life was...

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On the road Again: Driving after a brain injury

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May 4, 2017

Getting from point A to point B may sound simple. Just get in the car and go. Drive to work, drive to a doctor’s appointment or drive to a child’s athletic event. Most people take for granted the freedom that...

Walk With a Doc prescribes exercise as medicine

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May 16, 2016

Physicians at Baylor Scott & White Health have new prescription pads in their pockets — they are prescribing exercise by encouraging their patients to come ‘walk (and roll) with a doc’. Swapping white coats for walking shoes, physicians lace up each month, encouraging...

Helping paralyzed patients take steps into tomorrow

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Mar 23, 2016

To most, Ashley Barnes is known as a charismatic community advocate and devoted mother.As her physical therapist, I know Ashley as a fighter.For the past two years, the 36-year-old Tyler, Texas, resident has been paralyzed from the waist down.Since she...

ThinkFirst: Students learn no-nonsense approach to injury prevention

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Jan 9, 2016

Most patients enter Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation via ambulance or gurney. However, on a special day in October, a high school class of seniors from Argyle High School made their way south on I-35 to spend the day in the acute...

After traumatic brain injury, Audrey Self tackles life in new way

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Dec 9, 2015

Audrey Self was driving to class at Southern Methodist University (SMU) early one morning in 2013 when her car was ‘T-boned’ by a speeding driver.At that same time, Dallas Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Jerry Knorr was heading home from...

North Dallas amputee’s return inspires health care workers

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Mar 12, 2015

“She is absolutely the strongest woman that we have ever known.”Those are words people might reserve for a grandmother, mother, sister, wife, or close female friend whom they have known for a long time. In this case, though, those are...