Comparing Hearing Aids:

With the advent of the digital age technology changes almost daily producing a huge amount of information to sift through, this plus the ever increasing number of competing products makes it very difficult to sort out what is really suited to your needs at the budget you are prepared to pay. Comparing hearing aids is one of these daunting tasks.

Unfortunately, one of the most expensive devices that we can buy designed to help us hear better...

Different situations call for different measures – and as one might be surprised to know, the same holds true for wheelchairs. Did you know that there is such a thing as transport wheelchairs? These are special kinds of wheelchairs and some differences exist between it and the regular kind. If you have an ageing person or simply someone in need of being pushed around in one, you might find it to be a good alternative to try out. After all, there are many advantages to it too.

Knee pain is a common condition and it usually causes a sharp pain which occurs when you are waking up and walking up the stairs. There are various types of knee pain and to get relief you can useorthotics.The most common form of this pain affects the knee cap and the thigh bone and it can get worse especially in the morning and after you sit for a long time. The pain can occur as a result of wear and tear in the knee and this usually happens as people get older. The wear and tear can...

The fact that diabetes affects millions of people from far and wide means that it is one disease we must all try to avoid where possible, and live with if suffering from it. But to be more precise, diabetes is known to greatly affect the health of one's feet, and legs in general. Note that each year, many people have their legs amputated, due to complications associated with this disease. So how can one mitigate the effects of this disease, and protect their feet from any future...

Patient Rights for SCI survivors

For patients who have suffered spinal cord injuries, the appropriate reaction to medical malpractice can vary. Spinal cord injuries are already traumatic, without the addition of unfortunate medical accidents. The best way to protect you and your loved ones from receiving substandard care is by being a proactive, educated consumer who is willing to exercise their rights as a patient.

In general, a selection of federal, state and common law...

I have recently been obsessing over a TV show called Friday Night Lights which is about a high school football team in small-town Texas.

In the pilot episode, the team's star quarterback is injured and paralyzed in a tackle gone wrong.

Rather than write him out of the script, Jason Street has stayed a relevant and main character in the series, now 3 seasons old.

The show illustrates his struggles to adapt to life in a wheel chair. It focuses on his romantic life - can...

Installing a stair lift in your home is a great way to increase the number of years you can live at home, even if you or a loved one have health limitations that make it difficult to go up and down stairs.

I was out with an elderly woman last week who was looking to buy a new home. She already had bad knees, and had to take the stairs slowly. One of the things she was looking for was whether her new property would accommodate a master on the main level (if it didn't already have...

A few months ago, after my mother died of cancer, I decided that I wanted to find out more information about some of my relatives. I knew that my mother had come from a big family, and that she had grown up in California. I wasn't sure what kind of information I was looking for, but eventually I decided to look at the California Death Records .

My mother had met my father and moved to Boston with him when she was seventeen. She didn't talk much about the family she left behind,...

I was recently reading an account written by Wharton-educated Economist, Paul Zane Pilzner, about an acquaintance he'd made with a successful young man in the stairlift industry.  In fact, this young man has one of the nation's leading stair lift companies.

When I read the article, I was surprised to see a 20-something involved in an industry that I normally don't think of as "cool."

As it turned out, this young man joined the stair lift industry not because...

The evolution of wheel chairs has changed much since its origin. In recent years, they have become lighter, more useful, and more comfortable than ever.

The invention of the wheel chair probably dates back to the time that chairs and wheels were invented. Many efforts were made to attach wheels to chairs dating back to the time of Christ. The oldest known picture of a wheel chair dates back to the 6th century from China. A picture of a wheeled chair...