Health Topics / Rehabilitation

Your pelvic floor is a group of muscles in your pelvis, found between your tailbone and pubic bone. These muscles are essential for everyday activities, such as healthy bowel and bladder function, but they can be weakened or damaged by...

It’s often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about a painting of just one word? What started as a simple art therapy class is now an on-going source of inspiration. Art that inspires When...

Getting back behind the wheel after an injury is a major goal for patients in rehabilitation. After a spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury or stroke, even doing simple tasks on your own can be a challenge. Being able to...

Many of us are familiar with stuttering — that frustrating moment when you’re trying to speak, but the words won’t come out right.But what about cluttering? Cluttering also affects a person’s ability to communicate. Stuttering and cluttering may seem similar,...

Until November 2013, my life was playing out just as I had imagined. From the outside looking in, I am sure my life looked “perfect.” I was almost finished with my first semester at Southern Methodist University (SMU). My life...

Getting from point A to point B may sound simple. Just get in the car and go. Drive to work, drive to a doctor’s appointment or drive to a child’s athletic event. Most people take for granted the freedom that...

Physicians at Baylor Scott & White Health have new prescription pads in their pockets — they are prescribing exercise by encouraging their patients to come ‘walk (and roll) with a doc’. Swapping white coats for walking shoes, physicians lace up...

To most, Ashley Barnes is known as a charismatic community advocate and devoted mother.As her physical therapist, I know Ashley as a fighter.For the past two years, the 36-year-old Tyler, Texas, resident has been paralyzed from the waist down.Since she...

Most patients enter Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation via ambulance or gurney. However, on a special day in October, a high school class of seniors from Argyle High School made their way south on I-35 to spend the day in the...

Audrey Self was driving to class at Southern Methodist University (SMU) early one morning in 2013 when her car was ‘T-boned’ by a speeding driver.At that same time, Dallas Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Jerry Knorr was heading home from...

“She is absolutely the strongest woman that we have ever known.”Those are words people might reserve for a grandmother, mother, sister, wife, or close female friend whom they have known for a long time. In this case, though, those are...