Word: quadriplegia
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...treatment to prevent spinal swelling. That may have saved him from lifelong paralysis. These types of injuries are much rarer now since high schools and colleges prohibited head-first tackles in 1976. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Football injuries resulting in quadriplegia- high school, college and professional ? '76 -- 34 ? '84 -- 5 ? '91 -- 1 (Mike Utley, Detroit Lions...
...assassin." Stingley visited paralyzed players, started a nonprofit group for inner-city kids and forgave Tatum. "It was only after I stopped asking why," he said, "that I was able to ... go on with my life." He was 55 and suffered from numerous ailments related to his quadriplegia...
...rooms after traumatic events, those admitted with the fastest heartbeats had the highest risk of later developing PTSD. Another is the surprising fact that after an accident there's a much higher rate of PTSD in those with paraplegia (paralysis of the lower body) than in those who suffer quadriplegia (paralysis of all four limbs). "It doesn't make any psychological sense," says Pitman. But it makes physiological sense because quadriplegia severs the link between the brain and the adrenal glands...
...driver-safety films. "Documentaries used to have that should factor," says Dana Adam Shapiro, who co-directed Murderball with Henry Alex Rubin. "Like, you should know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair. We've kicked away the soapbox. We aren't preaching at you. We also tried to shoot, edit, score and pace it like a feature film. We chose subjects...
...find some that they were. The skin rash thought to be the hallmark of the virus showed up in only about 25% of cases. On the other hand, nearly half the patients studied experienced significant muscle weakness or partial paralysis. In fact, paralysis--up to and including generalized quadriplegia--was so common that doctors are starting to compare West Nile to the last major epidemic of infectious paralysis: the polio outbreak of the 1950s...