First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. Although I am of an age when others like me learn how to handle a walker or ...

Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old man from the Netherlands, is able to walk for the first time in 12 years. Oskam, who became paralyzed after a cycling accident in 2011, is learning to walk again thanks ...

September is Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month and doctors and patients in Grand Rapids are bringing attention to people ...

Peter Kavanagh was diagnosed with polio in 1953, at the height of the terrifying epidemic in Canada and just two years before Jonas Salk's vaccine was invented. The disease ravaged the muscles in his ...

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