Word: rehab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phase" of medicine-after diagnosis and treatment. More than 2,230,000 disabled Americans, recovering from disease or accidents, sorely need its help in getting back to life. Most in need: paraplegics (both legs disabled), quadriplegics (both arms and legs) and hemiplegics (one side of the body). For them, "rehab" is a stirring technique of hope, sweat and moral grit-and for the majority, it has worked...
...What happens to Quadriplegic Campanella at the Rehabilitation Institute is mostly up to him. First rule: "Paralysis is a way of life." To teach it-if he has the will to learn-the patient can count on a skilled team of therapists, psychiatrists, vocational counselors, social workers, bracemakers and rehab's own special physicians, the physiatrists. They begin with a precise analysis of how much physical capacity remains, seek out the spine level at which muscles are no longer connected with the brain. Where possible, points of spinal-cord compression have been relieved by neurosurgery; uncontrollable muscle spasms...