Sentences with phrase «quadriplegic with»

Depending on the location and severity of the damage, you may be confined to a wheelchair or be a quadriplegic with very little use of your body.

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In the second, he was a 21 - year - old quadriplegic coping with the realization that he might never walk again.

Her backstory was famous by the time I heard her speak at a Jesus festival: the diving accident that left her quadriplegic, the paintings she created with a brush between her teeth.

I'm a quadriplegic and I need daily assistance with dressing / undressing and bathing.

AMANDA DICKEY: Yes, it was something that I wasn't ever sure, there's really just not a lot of medical knowledge, especially about quadriplegics or even anyone with a spinal cord injury, which would include paraplegics, but there's just not a lot of knowledge out there, especially accessible knowledge like on the internet.

Top brass in the NYPD stood in line at Saint Agnes Parish Center for a viewing along with others who loved and admired Det. Steven McDonald of Malverne, a veteran officer left a quadriplegic after a line - of - duty shooting in Central Park three decades ago.

«He's using the part of his brain that's been disconnected from the real world,» says Donoghue, who foresees a day when «you'll shake hands with a person and he'll say, «By the way, I'm a quadriplegic.

Earlier this year, another team reported using a brain machine interface to allow a quadriplegic to move his finger and arms, but that system directly activated arm muscles with brain signals detected by implanted electrodes, bypassing the damaged spinal cord.

John Donoghue In 2005, with the help of a Donoghue - devised brain chip, a quadriplegic man used a robotic arm to pick up a piece of candy.

Bio-pic chronicles quadriplegic Ramon's Sampredo's 28 - year crusade to legalize euthanasia in order that he be allowed to die with dignity.

John Callahan was a quadriplegic, and the movie looks like it deals mostly with his recovery from alcoholism and subsequent discovery of his ability to draw cartoons by grasping a pen in both hands.

Besides coming to terms with her quadriplegic state, they are also faced with further risky surgeries, mounting medical expenses and responsibilities to their other children.

Lane was a bull riding specialist until a fall from one left him a quadriplegic, with severe speech impediments.

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith HollywoodNews.com: When motivational guru Tony Robbins debuts his powerful new NBC «Breakthrough With Tony Robbins» reality show July 27, viewers will see such astonishing stories as that of a man who broke his neck at his own wedding reception and became a quadriplegic ---LSB-...]

The Sea Inside tells the true story of Ramon Sampedro (Javier Bardem, Collateral), who spent almost thirty years as a quadriplegic after a diving accident left him with no feeling or movement below his neck.

Joaquin Phoenix plays the quadriplegic illustrator and Jonah Hill his AA counselor — both roles that break the seriousness of the film with superb comedic relief and will likely earn both actors awards season nods next year.

A devastating snowboarding accident left the Victoria, B.C., resident with fractured vertebrae and a diagnosis as a quadriplegic.

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Anita Jewitt Qualified: 2008 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Recovered # 8.5 m for a child with quadriplegic cerebral palsy following the hospital's delay in expediting his delivery; recovered # 7.4 m for a child who sustained bilateral upper and lower limb amputations as a result of the delayed diagnosis of meningococcal septicaemia; recovered # 6m for a child who suffered from cerebral palsy as a result of the hospital's failure to carry out an earlier caesarean section.

Ms. Smith - Worthylake has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and has served as a volunteer with many disability organizations including the Ontario March of Dimes.

In 2012, an 81 - minute delay in performing an emergency c - section left a baby boy with severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.

A $ 900,000 settlement with an insurance company, based on a $ 25,000 policy, when the victim was rendered quadriplegic due to a car accident;

The first matter involved the wife essentially wanting confirmation that she was not prevented from bringing dependant's claim (under the Family Law Act) in connection with a motor vehicle accident involving the husband which rendered him a quadriplegic.

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