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"quadriplegic" Definitions
  1. permanently unable to use your arms and legs

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It has this Richard Simmons-esque, '80s quality to it and shows positions for an able-bodied man with a quadriplegic woman, or a quadriplegic man with an able-bodied woman.
I have pulled a quadriplegic through 400 miles of triathlon.
It's being reported today that he is now a quadriplegic.
Jim Langevin, the first quadriplegic to serve in the House.
For example, a healthy quadriplegic patient admitted for an annual exam was staffed to the same need as a quadriplegic patient admitted for a severe infection, two completely different circumstances requiring different bedside care.
In 1996, at the age of 23, I became a quadriplegic.
After sustaining injuries in a car accident, Jennifer Phillips became quadriplegic.
The pole severed Callahan's spine, rendering him a C5-6 quadriplegic.
In mere moments, a freak accident turned Jack into a quadriplegic.
He'd been a quadriplegic since a surfing accident when he was 28.
I was one of the first quadriplegic students to matriculate at Harvard.
"If the child survives, he will be most likely quadriplegic," he said.
Not that Schmidt is any slouch as a racer, even as a quadriplegic.
Copeland was in an accident 12 years ago that left him a quadriplegic.
Shubert's mother, Sheri Shubert, told KTRK her son could have been a quadriplegic.
Now a quadriplegic, he had lost much of the sensation below his neck.
One young man is left a quadriplegic after being shot during a robbery.
The robot was able to fetch water and open doors for a quadriplegic.
Pate survived as a quadriplegic for two years before dying from his injuries in 2012.
Her injury, which (spoiler alert) leaves her quadriplegic, sends Frankie in an angry, sad spiral.
A quadriplegic adult was blocked from civil society if buildings weren't required to have ramps.
In 2016, Schmidt made history by becoming the first quadriplegic to get a driver's license.
And because he's an incomplete quadriplegic, there is a chance his movement will continue to improve.
He needed a machine to breathe and, even if he recovered, faced life as a quadriplegic.
The clip featured Beck, a newly injured quadriplegic, being transferred from a car to her wheelchair.
I think as a gift for his friend Christopher Reeve, he wanted to play a quadriplegic.
Their first assignment deals with a quadriplegic girl named Boo who lives just north of Toronto.
Using a brain implant, quadriplegic Ian Burkhart is now able to play Guitar Hero with his hands.
At 25, he overdosed on drugs, causing a stroke that left him a quadriplegic and partially blind.
When she was 12, he was shot and was a quadriplegic for the rest of his life.
Australian videographer and quadriplegic, Jaimen Hudson, doesn't let his wheelchair hold him back from traveling the world.
At 80, Elaine lived by herself until a tragic fall in her apartment left her a quadriplegic.
Ms. Grossman, the quadriplegic whose ex-husband was never prosecuted, published a scathing memoir about her abuse.
"As a quadriplegic, I try to live a complete, full life to the extent possible," he said.
FYI, Session's 4-year-old is a quadriplegic who's been diagnosed with cerebral palsy and brain damage.
My father is quadriplegic, while my mother has a traumatic brain injury resulting in severe cognitive impairment.
Paré was suddenly a quadriplegic and needed to adjust to a new life with very limited mobility.
The movie picks up when Callahan, an alcoholic, gets into a catastrophic accident that leaves him quadriplegic.
"As a quadriplegic, I try to live a complete, full life to the extent possible," he said.
Similarly, he told the story of Daniel, a blind, quadriplegic friend who uses Siri to meet people online.
Certainly when we were preparing to shoot the film, we took the quadriplegic side of it very seriously.
This time, he'll be racing one guy: Sam Schmidt, a quadriplegic race car driver, in semi-autonomous cars.
Then he had another accident, when he was riding his bike in California, and he became a quadriplegic.
The author meets a quadriplegic man in his 20s who can find care only in a dementia home.
I am 54 years old, I've been a quadriplegic for 14 years, and I flew a plane today!
If he is lucky enough to leave the hospital, he will be a quadriplegic and need a ventilator.
My husband and I are both (very differently) disabled: he, quadriplegic; me, neuroatypical (anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders).
"He liked John Callahan's work - he saw it in his local newspaper in San Francisco - and Christopher Reeve was a friend of his who had had an accident and he very much wanted to play a quadriplegic, partly in honor of his friend, who was a quadriplegic," Van Sant said.
He started painting after a serious accident that broke two vertebrae and landed him in rehabilitation as a quadriplegic.
The only wrinkle is by the grace of God he had been rendered a quadriplegic by the preceding bullets.
Eventually they said, 'You're going to be a paraplegic and then a quadriplegic and then you're going to die.
His injury made him a C-5 quadriplegic, unable to move any part of his body below his shoulders.
After the accident, doctors told the Venezuelan international student that he was a quadriplegic and would never walk again.
In her absence, Rhyme has acquired a brainy assistant, Juliette Archer, also a quadriplegic and possibly a soul mate.
In October 2009, Mr. Collins, a veteran quadriplegic, had his powered mobility assistive device (MAD) damaged by an airline.
His sister said Ball's health suffered tremendously -- describing him as a quadriplegic who could only communicate using his eyes.
Jeffrey Alston, who became a quadriplegic after a 1997 van ride, settled with the city for $6 million in 2004.
She was left quadriplegic and her family has been struggling to make sure her medical needs are taken care of.
A man with a gun for a hand kills her, and Grey wakes up in the hospital as a quadriplegic.
And her mother, a quadriplegic since a car accident at the age of 20, was sentenced to a 17 years.
In the video, Jordan disclosed she is quadriplegic due to a car accident, with partial paralysis in all four limbs.
Because of Burkhart's success, the researchers think the technology might one day help people who are quadriplegic regain some autonomy.
Reeve died in 2004 of complications from an infection, nine years after becoming a quadriplegic following a horse riding accident.
My son was immunized on schedule we observed very good hygiene precautions and still became a vent dependent quadriplegic overnight.
Henry Evans, a quadriplegic engineer and speaker, uses the Beam as an assistive device to go where he otherwise couldn't.
Across town from Ms. Moser, 23-year-old Stefan Moton survives his gunshot wounds as a quadriplegic in a wheelchair.
His only interactions were with corrections officers and medical staff who seemed to have no experience working with quadriplegic inmates.
The 37-year-old instantly became a quadriplegic when one of the helicopter's cables snapped and the load fell on her.
During the two days he lay comatose, a misdiagnosis of a brain hemorrhage as a drug overdose left him a quadriplegic.
In 1981, when he was his 20s, he suffered a stroke after a drug overdose, leaving him partially blind and quadriplegic.
The agent explained that a Honduran man had recently been taken into custody, along with his 5-year-old quadriplegic niece.
He regained some movement, but became quadriplegic, experienced seizures, and required permanent care which was facilitated by his mother Katie Ballard.
Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) and Link (Chris Carmack) do their best to save her spine, but she's going to be a quadriplegic.
" She also told Yahoo that the pain is usually "anything from full-body, quadriplegic paralysis to limbs not responding or moving.
"I misjudged the depth," Zhang tells PEOPLE, describing the accident that shattered his neck and spinal cord, leaving him a quadriplegic.
One such person is Todd Stabelfeldt, who became a quadriplegic after an accidental shooting as a child severed his spinal cord.
I.), who was shot accidentally as a teen and became the first quadriplegic to serve in Congress; Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.
The 37-year-old instantly became a quadriplegic when one of the helicopter&aposs cables snapped, and the load fell on her.
"It had circulated that he had operated on a good friend of his and made him into a quadriplegic," Henderson tells PEOPLE.
Upgrade tells the story of Grey Trace, a man in the near future who's left quadriplegic after a car accident and mugging.
The young athlete was told that he would have no use of his body from the shoulders down, rendering him a quadriplegic.
Next, he hears the inspiring story of a champion racer who, after an accident, became the first quadriplegic with a driver's license.
THE DISABILITY In this strange and creepy George A. Romero movie, Jason Beghe plays Allan, who was left quadriplegic after an accident.
Jim Langevin of Rhode Island, the first quadriplegic elected to Congress, will be the first Democrat to preside in the new Congress.
I can't tell you when exactly I became a quadriplegic, only that I know I am now a part of the club.
She became the first quadriplegic person to sail alone across the English Channel and the first disabled woman to circumnavigate Britain solo.
John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) became a heavy drinker at the age of 12 and, after a car accident, a quadriplegic at 21.
In 1985, his focus shifted when his son, Marc, suffered a spinal cord injury while playing college football that left him quadriplegic.
I have a progressive disease, multiple sclerosis, which has now rendered me quadriplegic; I no longer have use of my hands or legs.
She survived the crash but was paralyzed from the waist down with limited hand movement, confining her to a wheelchair as a quadriplegic.
Recently, he and his team implemented a microchip into the brain of Ian Burkhart, a 24-year-old quadriplegic man from Dublin, Ohio.
Last September, Sam Schmidt, a quadriplegic and former professional race car driver, was the first person to receive an autonomous vehicle driver's license.
The then 18-year-old Lambert, who had just been named to the training team for U.S. Olympic hockey, was left a quadriplegic.
"He is still recovering from a neck injury from earlier in the year, which had left him quadriplegic for a period," Levy said.
Left a quadriplegic, Mr. Lovell speaks of cycling the way Louis Armstrong did of jazz — if you have to ask, you'll never know.
She is emphatically not the morally enlightened quadriplegic, not the person whose suffering can be made into a vessel for other people's metaphors.
He's a quadriplegic, wheelchair bound since age 16, and was prescribed marijuana to treat the persistent leg spasms that come with his paralysis.
They cite 2004's Oscar-winning drama Million Dollar Baby, for example, where a boxer becomes a quadriplegic and then asks to die.
Gonzalez, a 36-year-old former Marine, was left quadriplegic after suffering a spinal cord injury during sniper fire while in Iraq in 2004.
I was a quadriplegic: They said I could move my arms around a little bit, but I wouldn't be able to do much else.
A Phoenix man has been accused of murder in the 2014 deaths of his pregnant fiancée, who was quadriplegic, and their child, PEOPLE confirms.
After experiencing a grueling 19-month recovery process to acclimate himself to life as a quadriplegic, Mills has more than just endured, he's excelled.
Ben Mattlin, the author of the essay, was born with spinal muscular atrophy, an incurable neuromuscular condition that has caused him to be quadriplegic.
The group crowd-funded a special wheelchair for their friend, Álvaro Silberstein, who was left quadriplegic following a car accident when he was 18.
The group crowd-funded a special wheelchair for their friend, Álvaro Silberstein, who was left quadriplegic following a car accident when he was 18.
"I immediately thought about my cousin who was [left a] quadriplegic from a car accident and thought, 'I'm gonna be paralyzed,'" Stratton told The Post.
Their fourth studio album—dedicated to the memory of Dailor's sister—chronicles the tale of a quadriplegic person who can only travel through astral projection.
The device is not a cure for paralysis, but rather a first-of-a-kind technology allowing a quadriplegic new mobility for the first time.
Judy O'Connor had accompanied her quadriplegic son, Marty, to every class at Chapman University for the past two years as his note-taker and caregiver.
"It was tough — women would read my profile and my messages, but wouldn't respond when they saw that I was a quadriplegic," he tells PEOPLE.
A quadriplegic since crashing his car in 2001, Mr. Bear Heels said he receives good medical care and takes pride in helping his fellow residents.
Egalitarians should agree about clear cases of blameless misfortune: the quadriplegic child, the cognitively impaired adult, the teen-ager born into poverty with junkie parents.
You get the feeling she was like that long before the accident that made her quadriplegic and that going soft now would be, well, crippling.
As the first quadriplegic to serve in Congress, I've spent the last 17 years navigating the hallways of our nation's Capitol Building in a wheelchair.
Don't Worry tells the true story of quadriplegic cartoonist and Portland, Oregon legend John Callahan and is based on his 1989 memoir of the same name.
Two years later she became the first quadriplegic to circle the Isle of Wight, sailing about 50 miles in an Artemis 20 keelboat named Me Too.
Embroidered into the alternating white stripes, she tells the story of a black quadriplegic Vietnam veteran falsely accused of the rape and murder of a white woman.
"It was emotional thinking about having to be in a wheelchair as a quadriplegic for my wedding, instead of everything I had always envisioned," says Anna Claire.
Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Ohio State University's Center for Neuromodulation, is working on something that could result in a breakthrough for paraplegic and quadriplegic people.
Modern Love The actor Colin Farrell reads "Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?" by Gary Presley, about a quadriplegic man who finds love with a female attendant.
"Married is a magic word," Ms. Windsor told a rally outside City Hall in New York a few days before Dr. Spyer, a quadriplegic, died on Feb.
Mr. O'Connor, a quadriplegic, was injured in 2012, when he fell down a flight of stairs while working at the packaging industry firm TricorBraun in Southern California.
" In 1980, she was given a special Tony Award for her performance on Broadway as a quadriplegic who wanted to die in "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
From his breakout performance in My Left Foot, where he plays a quadriplegic artist, Day-Lewis has built up an impressive, critically acclaimed track record of dramatic roles.
Perhaps the most impressive demonstration of Emotiv's technology was when Rodrigo Hubner Mendes, a quadriplegic man, used it to drive a Formula One car using only his thoughts.
So I have the perspective of being an abled-bodied person dating, being a paralyzed person in a marriage, being quadriplegic and dating, and finding a new love.
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An accident a few years ago left him a quadriplegic, reliant on voice-recognition software and other aids -- and unable to take notes or write answers to tests.
Aubree will have neck surgery, and doctors tell Hendrix there's a 99.9 percent chance the accident left her daughter quadriplegic, according to a GoFundMe page that was created.
The film centers around a quadriplegic man (played by The Hunger Games' Sam Claflin) who has a romance with his caregiver, played by Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke.
She was living a meaningful life as a quadriplegic, but one of her condition's most difficult limitations was that she was rarely in a position to help others.
PARIS (Reuters) - Doctors have decided to end life support for a quadriplegic French man whose case has torn apart his family and has been taken to the United Nations.
She's just one of several subjects in the film — some of them quadriplegic like Rockwood, some paraplegic (meaning that they have control of their upper bodies), and one amputee.
This one stars Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as a free spirit who becomes a caretaker for a wealthy and cranky quadriplegic played by Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games).
The 30-year-old quadriplegic was flying through the air, having jumped out of a plane at 14,000 feet, fulfilling a dream she's had since she was a teenager.
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A French quadriplegic in a vegetative state involved in a decade-long legal battle to maintain his life support died on Thursday after doctors ended treatment.
When Marc suffered a spinal cord injury in 1985 while playing college football at The Citadel that left him a quadriplegic, Nick founded the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
Halpern also has multiple sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that has rendered him quadriplegic and has turned his signature into an "X," as he is incapable of signing his own name.
Her beautification of illness is, in part, inspired by her own experiences with people not asking questions about how she is or acknowledging her presence now that she's a quadriplegic.
He stumbles into an opportunity at the lavish home of Cranston's Phillip, a quadriplegic billionaire looking for a "life auxiliary" -- a live-in helper to assist with all his needs.
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A quadriplegic French patient, who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, should be allowed to die, France's top court ruled on Friday.
The child, Jeffrey Erlanger, a quadriplegic, described his treatment for a tumor discovered when he was 7 months old, and Rogers asked him to demonstrate how his electric wheelchair worked.
Based on the quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan's life, the dark comedy reunites Mr. Phoenix with the writer-director Gus Van Sant, who worked together on "To Die For" in 1995.
Kim Gervais, who was left a quadriplegic after the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas in 2017, died on Friday, her sister tells KVVU-TV.
"It is the most comprehensive thing I have seen in my 2025 years of looking at these things," said Jason Dorwart, a theater professor at Oberlin College who is quadriplegic.
In that time, the technology has evolved, but also the ways in which we talk or think about disability, and the ways we talk about being quadriplegic or paraplegic has changed.
Over coffee, he explains that Yorkie has been a quadriplegic since she was 21, having been seriously injured in a car accident after coming out to her parents and being rejected.
This year, researchers reported that they had put a chip in the brain of a quadriplegic man that transmitted signals to a sleeve around his arm, allowing him to use it.
That brilliant quadriplegic consulting detective is no longer working criminal cases for the New York Police Department, which has distanced him from his colleague and lover, the homicide detective Amelia Sachs.
Me Before You tells the story of Louisa Clark, a small-town Brit who, after struggling to find a job, is hired as a caretaker for Will Traynor, a quadriplegic man.
He will remain precariously pickled even after a fateful night of partying in 1972 with an equally soused pal (Jack Black) leaves him quadriplegic and entirely dependent on his lackadaisical caregiver.
Audrey pushed Jimmy (who was left quadriplegic after an accident) in a wheelchair up to the casket, while Jimmy carried the pillow he toted 21 years prior with the couple's wedding rings.
In 2014, the team at Pittsburgh took on a second quadriplegic subject, a twenty-seven-year-old named Nathan Copeland, to see if they could channel sensory information directly into his brain.
As a result, this impolitic (some might say offensive) tale of Phillip (Cranston), a wealthy, white quadriplegic, and Dell (Hart), the black parolee who restores his will to live, is surprisingly winning.
After capturing first place, diagnosis later revealed she had herniated a disc in the spinal cord so severely that even the slightest mishap in the reparative surgery could have made her a quadriplegic.
When we meet Louisa in Me Before You, she's a plucky, cheery, hopeful caretaker for Will Traynor, a moody, morose quadriplegic who is determined to end the pain he's carried since his accident.
During an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, the 39-year-old said doctors have told her the two other fractures may never heal, which puts her at risk of becoming a quadriplegic.
For example, if a quadriplegic child goes to the doctor because of bedsores, doctors often write down the reason the child came in -- the bedsores -- instead of the more serious diagnosis of quadriplegia.
I.), the first quadriplegic member of Congress, praised former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday for signing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law and creating additional opportunities for people with disabilities.
Cédric, the son of a pharmaceutical magnate, is left quadriplegic after a boating accident, until his father pays for a fame-hungry genius, Dr. Cadavero, to transplant Cédric's head onto another man's body.
It's not a long moment in the film that he spends as a quadriplegic, but it was important for us, for that moment to have as much integrity as anything else in the film.
This week, Kendrick Lamar purchased a wheelchair-accessible van for one of his fans, Jennifer Phillips, who survived a car crash that left her a quadriplegic during the Dallas stop on his DAMN. tour.
It forced him to make a sudden decision to help keep his quadriplegic 41-year-old son safe, assembling a makeshift wheelchair ramp that he used to push him onto a turned-over cabinet.
Sergeant Pam Kelly thought she would spend her entire career in the U.S. Army, but she suffered a paralyzing accident, and became a quadriplegic when a helicopter's cables snapped, and the load fell on her.
Another will focus on a shape-shifter who becomes quadriplegic and faces a choice: remain that way and live or opt for a final change that will grant mobility but prove fatal after a month.
For the rest of you reading, here's the abbreviated version of events:When an unemployed English girl secures a job caring for a handsome quadriplegic, the last thing either of them expect to find is love.
Another was a quadriplegic man who died of an infection after arriving at a hospital too late to be treated effectively, and another was a dialysis patient who died in their home when their machine failed.
" Some of his most famous cartoons included a blind man spray-painting braille graffiti on a wall, and a showdown between two quadriplegic cowboys with the caption, "This town ain't accessible for the both of us.
"Me Before You," adapted by Jojo Moyes from her best-selling novel, is the story of a working-class girl and the bond she forms with a wealthy and angry quadriplegic man she is caring for.
But in a freak confluence of angles and physics, Chapman didn't just get drenched—she broke her neck, suffering a permanent spinal cord injury (SCI) that left her a quadriplegic with no feeling below her collarbone.
A remake of the 2011 French hit "The Intouchables," this awkward-looking mix of buddy comedy and uplifting weeper casts Bryan Cranston as a wealthy quadriplegic who hires a streetwise parolee (Kevin Hart) as his aide.
Brandon Daveler, a doctoral student leading the project (he's been a quadriplegic since a motorcycle accident at age 15), compared it to letting the air out of a balloon and using that to turn a windmill.
She became the first quadriplegic person to sail alone across the English Channel, in 23, and the first disabled woman to circumnavigate Britain solo, in 21972, according to World Sailing, the governing body for the sport.
Problematic casting, problematic storylines Back in 2016 the movie "Me Before You" came out, initially exciting the disability community with the first quadriplegic lead role in a long time; then came the realization of the ending.
A shooting while on patrol in 1986 left McDonald quadriplegic, but he outlasted expert prognosis and dedicated his years to spreading a message of hope and courage to children, cops and violence-worn communities near and far.
BERLIN (Reuters) - It was a role Robin Williams wanted to play in honor of his friend "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve - the true story of a quadriplegic who despite his disability makes his name as a talented cartoonist.
In what may have been her final interview before her death, Kidder told  WWJ&aposs Sandra McNeill  on May 9 she was "sad but not that sad" when her "Superman" co-star Christopher Reeve became a quadriplegic.
Kids would write and send in the cutest renditions of their characters, but there's one letter that still sticks with me and chokes me up: It was from someone who became quadriplegic in his teens or twenties.
The film follows Louisa (Clarke), a twentysomething free spirit (you can tell she's truly, charmingly different because of her nontraditional tight choices) who becomes a caregiver for Will (Clafin), a man who has recently become a quadriplegic.
A federal appeals court has revived a verdict against General Motors and ordered a new trial on damages in a lawsuit claiming one of the company's seatbelt systems caused car crash injuries that left a man a quadriplegic.
Scientists on Wednesday described accomplishments achieved by 24-year-old quadriplegic Ian Burkhart using an implanted chip that relays signals from his brain through 130 electrodes on his forearm to produce muscle movement in his hands and fingers.
"While this was all going on in my family, I heard a news story about a young man in England who had suffered a terrible accident and it left him quadriplegic," she explained of the former rugby player.
"Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot," based on Callahan's 1989 memoir, shows the young man partying while in thrall to alcoholism before a car accident on a drunken night out leaves him quadriplegic at age 21.
The patient in this study is a 24-year-old quadriplegic named Ian Burkhart, who severed his spinal cord during a vacation to North Carolina's Outer Banks in 2010 when he dove into a sandbar in the ocean.
For Mandy Shaw, whose eight-year-old son is a quadriplegic with a distorted pelvis and legs caused by a brain hemorrhage that happened when he was four, Target's Cat & Jack adaptive line has made a huge difference.
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A French appeals court on Monday ordered doctors to resume giving food and water to a French quadriplegic, lawyers said, some 12 hours after medics switched off the man's life support against his parents' will.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The mother of a quadriplegic French man who has been in a vegetative state for more than a decade brought her case to the United Nations on Monday, seeking diplomatic pressure for maintaining his life support.
Over the course of months, he wrote, countless physicians, hospitals and rehab facilities missed the spinal cord damage that left him quadriplegic — instead variously ascribing his inability to move to his mental illness, his medications or his will.
With the assistance of its human handlers, the Human Support Robot, as Toyota calls it, wheeled into Camargo's home on a mission: to support the quadriplegic veteran and in the process pave the way for truly useful care robots.
The Intouchables is part buddy comedy, part drama: A wealthy quadriplegic man named Philippe hires a black ex-convict named Driss to be his close, on-call personal assistant, and the two form (you guessed it) an unlikely friendship.
As a quadriplegic, Amenta, a native of Venezuela, usually relies on his wheelchair, but he walked across the stage Sunday to accept his diploma with help from an exoskeleton, some rehearsals and the exuberant support of his classmates (CBS News).
In 2015 the Colorado Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling in a case in which a Dish Network employee, Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic who used medical marijuana when off duty to control seizures, was fired for a positive drug test.
But what Crosby's project shares with Nelson's is that both women have found themselves in the uncomfortable position of being seen as a genre of person—a mother for Nelson, a quadriplegic for Crosby—whose life does not fit within genre conventions.
If a quadriplegic person requires an aide to get out of bed, get dressed, and get showered every morning, that person needs to either qualify for SSI to get those services, or pay for them out of pocket — an incredibly expensive proposition.
In 2003, her office was criticized after declining to prosecute a man accused of physically abusing his quadriplegic wife, and in 2011, her office offered a former Jehovah's Witness elder accused of sexually abusing a teenager a plea agreement of just six months.
PARIS, July 8 (Reuters) - A French quadriplegic patient who had been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, and whose condition sparked a legal to-and-fro over whether to end his life support, died on Thursday, two lawyers for his relatives said.
The shading of the humor—harsh, drier than sand, and gleeful at its own darkness—owes much to the spirit of the artist, who was in a car accident when he was twenty-one and spent the rest of his days as a quadriplegic.
One of those was Kathy Nash, who stumbled upon a brief report about EagleEyes on television and realized it could help her teenage son, Michael, who was born with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, was nonverbal and had no voluntary muscle movement below the neck.
Elena Mukhina, the 1978 World Champion, became a quadriplegic after breaking her neck while practicing a risky tumbling run just two weeks before the 1980 Olympics, and a 2015 study of college athletes showed that women's gymnastics has a higher injury rate than football.
I was in my backyard, I remember that, and it was a nice day like this, and I just suddenly had this image of a quadriplegic in a wheelchair who stood up out of the chair and was being controlled from the neck down by a computer.
Vanessa Marano, who plays Luke Danes' deus ex machina of a daughter April Nardini, gave a talk about the Christopher Reeve Foundation, a cause near to her heart after acting alongside Reeve shortly before his death in a film about a young woman who becomes a quadriplegic.
She's been taught to fetch small items like misplaced spectacles, turn the pages of a book on command, switch on lights; all seemingly inconsequential tasks, but those the architect Duncan Wheeler, recently left quadriplegic after a car accident, is no longer able to perform for himself.
Marilyn E. Saviola, who after childhood polio left her a quadriplegic spent much of her adult life advocating for people with disabilities, pushing for the removal of both the physical barriers and the attitudes that hinder people like her from fully participating in society, died on Nov.
Van Sant's latest movie, " Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot ," is an adaptation of a darkly funny memoir by the late cartoonist John Callahan—played in the movie by Joaquin Phoenix —who, in a drunk-driving accident at the age of twenty-one, became a quadriplegic.
In 1972, when he was 21, John Callahan decided he was too drunk to drive after a night of bar hopping and handed his Volkswagen keys to a man he barely knew, who drove into a utility pole at 90 miles an hour and left Mr. Callahan a quadriplegic.
The blow had severed his spinal cord, leaving him a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down, with only partial use of his arms and hands — a condition unknown to most television viewers, because he was usually seen on camera seated behind a desk, his wheelchair out of sight.
Logan [Marshall-Green], who plays Grey, he worked with a guy who was a quadriplegic who was nice enough to spend a lot of time with Logan, share his life with him, talk to Logan, let Logan see what his daily rituals were like, let him actually use a chair.
John Westbrook was not the first driver to flip his car at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa. But he was the one to suffer some of the greatest consequences, becoming a quadriplegic after his sprint car tumbled over the guardrail and down a 0003-foot embankment in September 2008.
In what is likely the strangest film in a series full of strange films, zombie maestro George Romero's Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Terror contains the sight — rare in real life but repeated in this flick — of a quadriplegic man slow-dancing to Peggy Lee with his helper capuchin monkey.
Those returned also include a former soldier with no criminal record and a quadriplegic man who lived in Australia for 36 years, while in March a 17-year-old boy was placed in an adult detention center 12 hours away from his family — the youngest New Zealander yet to be detained.
"The most accessible feature on an airplane is the fact that the arm rest lifts up to get in and out of the seat, and that's about it," said Lee Page, a quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair full time and serves as the senior advocacy director for Paralyzed Veterans of America.
The first warning comes from Hodges' ex-partner, Pete Huntley, who calls him to the scene of a murder-suicide that may be his last case before he retires from the force: A mother has killed her quadriplegic daughter, who was among those maimed by Brady Hartsfield, and has then killed herself.
The penultimate episode of Grey's Anatomy Season 15 was full of arcs the show has been following all season — Gus (Christian Ganiere), the little boy with the incredibly rare blood; the quadriplegic woman who is waiting to see if a stem cell transplant will help her; Jo's (Camilla Luddington) struggle since meeting her birth mom.
To prove her natural ability to cheer up just about anyone, Clarke spends the first 15 minutes of the movie wearing a rictus grin so chipper that as she nannies her way into the life of Claflin's angry quadriplegic, one wonders if she's secretly plotting revenge on Emily Blunt for landing her dream role of Mary Poppins.
Only days after quashing the idea that he would return as host of the Oscars, the actor and comedian is back at the top of the box office in STX's "The Upside," a dramedy starring Hart as a black parolee who becomes the caregiver and pal of a wealthy, white quadriplegic man played by Bryan Cranston.
Odds and Ends A couple of smaller patient storylines also get wrapped up this episode, though they get lost a little what with all the excitement: First, the quadriplegic woman starts to be able to move her fingers and the celebrating around her progress causes Nico (Alex Landi) to realize that he needs help because all he feels is anger.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins demonstrated a system that enables a person to move the individual fingers of a prosthetic hand using just his thoughts, while a team from the Battelle Memorial Institute developed a brain implant that enabled a quadriplegic man to play Guitar Hero with his hands, making him the first person in history to regain function using signals from his brain.
It's a bit of a jolt as you come to a stop even from the Gorge line's slower top speed of 35 mph, but it's nothing your average tourist can't handle, and Terra-Nova founder Eric Cylvick explained to me that the commercial system on which it's based is designed so that it's accessible to all – including paraplegic and event quadriplegic riders.
The story revolves around small-town free spirit Louisa Clark, who becomes a caretaker for wealthy quadriplegic Will Traynor, and a highly anticipated film adaptation – starring Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke and Hunger Games' Sam Claflin – is now in theaters Many readers and filmgoers might be surprised to learn that the emotional, sensitive subject material in Moyes' work was inspired by real-life events.
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