Last year I messed up my left shoulder and was told that I would need rotator cuff surgery.

I remember exactly when I did it, although at the time, it didn't seem too bad. I had some flat packed office furniture delivered for the home office. Signed for it and then decided to carry it upstairs. Being impatient to see the new stuff in situ I decided to carry it on my own rather than wait for any help.The chair was easy, the bookcase wasn't too bad but by the time I got to the desk,...

There are a number of physical and mental conditions of disorders that constitute disability. When this condition pertains for a long time, people find themselves in the condition of inactiveness and unable to do works like normal activities. The impact of the condition is so severe that it hampers their personal and professional lives. The disabled people are seen unable to execute their day-to-day works like eating, walking, reading, talking, shopping and many more. Though there is no...

The Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) is direct support program that helps people living with disabilities and are in financial scarcity. It provides assistance especially in the food and housing. Its legislation defines to cater financial and income support to the "persons with kind of disability." It basically pays on the monthly basis in the form of fixed amount for basic needs, and a variable and limited amount for shelter. The beneficiaries are paid to the...

In a bid to provide direct financial and assistive support to the disabled people, one can find several government disability programs in Canada. These programs are proving to be attractive as well as fruitful to the needy people. The Ministry of Community and Social Services funds and monitors the Special Services at Home program to the needy people. These programs help adults and children who are caught under developmental disability. Children with a physical disability and their...

It is very hard to find a very specific definition of the disability; it is the symptoms and the conditions under which people with disabilities can be identified. According to the definition of World Health Organization, "the condition of the disability can be defined as an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an...

Is your spouse suffering from the long term disability? Are you seeking for a solid support to protect his/her future? Then you don't have to worry much because there are many insurance companies who are promising to provide financial and medical insurance support to the sufferers. The term disability insurance can be defined as the disability income insurance, and this form of insurance provides a wide range protection to the sufferers. It covers the beneficiary's earned income against...

Both a passenger and goods lift are available in a range of sizes and dimensions and any company or organisation wishing to install an elevator must consider carefully what the individual needs of the building are and what is the most appropriate lift size to accommodate these.

From the smallest lifts such as dumb waiters, which are generally used to transport hot food to its destination quickly, to the commercial elevators designed to hold large quantities of people and...

This article will introduce a very simple example of one of the many stretches for sciatica that can help with sciatic pain relief. Many people have used it to quickly find relief. However, there is one very important thing to keep in mind. Stretches such as this one are only the first step in your treatment. If you really want to treat your sciatica symptoms, you need to go deeper and correct the underlying dysfunctions that led to your sciatica symptoms in the first...

Dyslexia used to be called "word blindness" and as such was isolated to describe just those individuals with difficulties in reading.  As research has progressed however, doctors and psychologists now recognize and describe many types of dyslexia.  If we were to go back and use the archaic terms of yesteryear, we might now be talking about number blindness, motor function blindness, writing blindness, and hearing blindness.  No one talks in those terms today and...

It has been estimated that as many as 20% of children may have some form of dyslexia.  An even more disturbing statistic is that as many as 27% of those kids may dropout and never finish school if intervention and treatment doesn't happen.  While this is not an article about dyslexia statistics, one more is worth reciting is that only 1/3 of children with dyslexia receive treatment in school.  There are many things that you can do at home for your dyslexic child...