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Bones, Joints & Muscles

 
1st December 2022

Riding in the fast lane with a spinal injury

Photo by 938 Media Aaron Morgan is living his dream as a race car driver, despite a life-changing spinal injury at age 15 that left him paralysed from the lower chest ...

by Karen Finn Bones, Joints & Muscles
 
17th May 2022

Walking again after paralysis

by Comms Team Bones, Joints & Muscles
 
20th October 2021

Rebuilding her backbone and her life

by Karen Finn Bones, Joints & Muscles
 
Bones, Joints & Muscles 1st December 2022

Riding in the fast lane with a spinal injury

Photo by 938 Media Aaron Morgan is living his dream as a race car driver, despite a life-changing spinal injury at age 15 that left him paralysed from the lower chest down. To help raise awareness on International Day of Persons with ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 17th May 2022

Walking again after paralysis

“The first time that I stood up… it was like when you start a run. Now you are a starter for the challenge – the game has begun!” Michel Roccati was 27 years old when he was paralysed in a motorbike accident ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 20th October 2021

Rebuilding her backbone and her life

Karen Faulkner was shocked when a spinal fracture led to a surprise osteoporosis diagnosis. Having always led a healthy and active lifestyle, at 60 years old she assumed that her risk of developing osteoporosis was very low. “I couldn’t believe ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 8th October 2021

Raising the bar on talipes

When international high-jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards was diagnosed with talipes equinovarus at birth, his mum worried it would hold him back. As he took gold at the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, he showed just what can be achieved with talipes. “It was ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 29th March 2021

Living my active life

Daniela Knecht had been suffering knee pain for years when she went looking for a way to continue living her full and active life. The first day after her surgery, she was up and about and feeling fantastic. “You know ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 4th January 2021

Standing strong with Paget’s disease

Simon Leigh had nearly recovered from ankle surgery when he started experiencing intense pain and swelling on the same leg. X-rays and scans led his doctors to an unexpected diagnosis and a little-used medical procedure. “Investigative X-rays showed abnormal bone ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 11th December 2020

Going for gold

Kayleigh Haggo is living proof of her maxim, ‘you can achieve anything you set your mind to’. Fitting with this year’s World Cerebral Palsy Day theme, #CPMakeYourMark, 21-year-old Kayleigh is blazing a trail in the international para-sport of race ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 26th November 2020

Sky is the limit

Andy Braybrook’s life changed after a near-fatal accident left him permanently paralysed. Three years after his road collision, he is now back on the road and setting his sights even higher. Andy’s story started on the first fine ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 18th November 2020

BACK ON THE START LINE

Before the break in her foot, British middle-distance runner Bobby Clay had no indication that there was anything wrong with her bone health. “I had competed internationally in athletics from a young teenager all the way through to the end ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 3rd November 2020

Life is better than ever

Three years ago, I needed help getting dressed in the mornings. Now I am a Pilates devotee, living an active, balanced life. My journey with rheumatoid arthritis started out on an otherwise idyllic holiday in France, when I was 42 years ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 21st September 2020

DREAMING WITHOUT LIMITS

Stelios Kympouropoulos, Psychiatrist and Greek Member of the European Parliament (MEP).  I would encourage everyone to pursue their dreams and not let anything stand in their way. At the age of 14 months I was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 3rd September 2020

Racing towards the gold

“I was fully able-bodied until I was eight. Then one day I woke up and couldn’t walk,” says British Paralympic wheelchair racer Nathan Maguire. It took about two weeks before doctors could confirm that Nathan had transverse myelitis, an ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 11th June 2020

Freedom in a wheelchair

Paralympic wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft wasn’t expected to survive birth, let alone become a top professional athlete. “I had two cardiac arrests within my first 24 hours of life,” the 27-year-old Brit tells This Is MedTech. Doctors managed to resuscitate ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 27th May 2020

How I found my inner superhero

Michel Fornasier was born without his right hand. It may not be the most severe disability, but it is a highly visible one. The physical and emotional challenges this caused affected his confidence as a child. Now he has turned ...

• by Comms Team

Bones, Joints & Muscles 5th March 2020

A lesson on resilience

Mike Rolls says his golf game is stronger as a bilateral amputee than it ever was when he had both his legs. The 37-year-old Australian has come a long way since a deadly infection called meningococcal septicaemia changed the trajectory ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 21st October 2019

Caught off guard by osteoporosis

Dale Darley didn’t know that she had osteoporosis until she fractured her spine. The British author and book writing coach was living her dream in the hills of Spain when her life changed in an instant. “I suddenly heard ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 16th October 2019

Flying high after spinal cord injury

As an elite skier training for the Olympics, Janine Shepherd had built her entire world around sports…until the day she woke up in hospital paralysed from the waist down due to a spinal cord injury. While out cycling on ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 11th September 2019

When sepsis strikes

Phil Crow went into hospital for a gallstone removal procedure expecting to be home the next day. Two months later he was still there, fighting for his life after complications led to sepsis. 'In July 2010 I was admitted to hospital ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 17th June 2019

Getting back in the game

Serbian tennis pro Nenad Zimonjić talks to MedTechWeek about the total hip replacement surgery that enabled him to continue his career. “It started at Wimbledon in 2009, when I was 33 and ranked number one in the world. After one of the ...

• by Karen Finn

Bones, Joints & Muscles 20th May 2019

The other type of arthritis

When you’re a young adult, the last thing you’re thinking about is arthritis. Robin Hughes and his daughter Eleanor certainly didn’t have it on their minds. But they didn’t have osteoarthritis, the type generally associated with ...

• by Comms Team

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