Physical Impairments category: 216 books
You've Gotta Fight Back!
Winning with serious illness, injury, or disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The heart of this book consists of thirteen, riveting, in-depth stories of people who fought back with courage, humor, and a positive attitude. In doing so, they have provided valuable guidance for you, the readers of this inspiring work.
The seriously ill, their friends and family will gain...
Shattered
True Story of an American Teenager
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Seventeen-year-old Holly Slack had the brains, the body, and the personality that made her one of the most enviable girls in school. Then, there was a tragic car accident. Holly's senior year in high school unfolds in quite a different way than she had planned.
Fallen
A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In the vein of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking*, Kara Stanley tells the compelling story of her husband’s life-changing brain and spinal cord injury and the role of music, science, and love in recovery.*
Kara Stanley combines the heart-wrenching narrative of a catastrophic brain...
Trapped
My Life with Cerebral Palsy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A revelatory memoir of one woman’s life with disability, depression, acceptance, and ultimately, love.
Fran Macilvey’s life had a difficult path from the moment she came into the world. Her mother, living in the Belgian Congo in the 1960s, had known she was pregnant with a daughter. But she...
Rewired
An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A raccoon bite on the arm doesn’t seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis. After days of treatment for recurring infection, it becomes obvious that her arm must be amputated. Dr. Ajay Seth, the son of immigrant parents from India and a local orthopaedic...
What Did You Say?
An Unexpected Journey into the World of Hearing Loss, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What Did You Say? is the book author Monique Hammond wishes she had when she was coping with and trying to understand her own sudden hearing loss. Weaving together her story with a wealth of information—causes of and types of hearing loss, audiology tests, hearing instruments and listening devices,...
That is Not Me
A Journey of Perception
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
That is Not Me: A Journey of Perception is based on a poem the author wrote during her early twenties. Growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, L.J. Nelson struggled to understand who she was as a Little Person diagnosed with Achondroplasia. During that time, very little scientific or medical research...
Treat Your Own Knees
Simple Exercises to Build Strength, Flexibility, Responsiveness and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Jim Johnson has researched hundreds of scientific journal articles to find and test the simplest most effective do-it-yourself treatments for knee pain. In this compact and accessible book, he shows readers exactly how to improve and maintain the functioning of their knees by enhancing the four crucial...
Autism All-Stars
How We Use Our Autism and Asperger Traits to Shine in Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Looking at the positive influences, great talents and unique thought processes of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders, this book is a celebration of those who have used their autism to shine in life. Writers from all over the world at different stages in their careers, and from very different...
by Kelly Davio
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
With equal parts wit and empathy, lived experience and cultural criticism, Kelly Davio’s It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability explores what it means to live with an illness in our contemporary culture, whether at home or abroad.“When the body attacks itself, the crisis is not just...
by Jayla Averill
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Huntington's disease is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain. Huntington's disease has a broad impact on a person's functional abilities and usually results in movement, thinking (cognitive) and psychiatric disorders.
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Looking Up
A Humorous and Unflinching Account of Learning to Live Again With Sudden Disability
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Tim Rushby-Smith is six foot two and highly active, with a love of high places and the great outdoors. Three years ago, with a booming garden design and landscaping business and his wife five months pregnant with their first child, Tim fell six metres out of a tree and broke his back, confining him...
Ficken sag ich selten
Mein Leben mit Tourette
Language: German
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Olaf Blumberg flucht, bellt, zuckt heftig und unwillkürlich, und das meistens in den unpassendsten Situationen – in der Bahn, in der Uni, in der Kirche, bei der neuen Freundin. Olaf hat Tourette. Hier erzählt er, wie er gelernt hat, diesen Dämon zu akzeptieren. Ein tragikomisches, anrührendes Buch über ein Leben mit einer unberechenbaren Krankheit.
by Joe Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
If your life has been touched by COPD, whether you are a patient, family or a health worker involved in the care of COPD patients, this book is for you!Joe Lodge, a UK COPD patient, draws on 15 years experience living with severe emphysema, to help the reader understand the mindset of dealing...