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...spent more than a year in different rehab facilities, slowly learning to swim and play wheelchair basketball. Then, a few months ago, he heard about Register's camp. He thought this could be his opportunity to fulfill a new dream: making the Paralympics team for wheelchair racing. After just one week of training for the event at the camp, Greene is so fit that he expects his times will be strong enough to land him a spot on the 2008 U.S. team. "I have a lot of confidence I'll be able to make the team," he says. "With some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Training Vets for the 2008 Paralympics | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

...Because it typically takes about three years to adequately rehab and train for the Paralympics, Winkler and Greene could be two of only a handful of other veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to make the 2008 team. But by 2012, Register says he's confident that veterans from those wars will make up at least 15% of the U.S. team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Training Vets for the 2008 Paralympics | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

...years, he had launched his crusade for America to "turn on, tune in, drop out." In other words, you can draw a woozy but vivid line from the sedate offices of J.P. Morgan and Time Inc. in the '50s to Haight-Ashbury in the '60s to a zillion drug-rehab c enters in the '70s. Long, strange trip indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Elite Loved LSD | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...there were doubters. Reeve was just one person--and a wealthy one too, who could afford the best care. In the 2 1/2 years since his death, however, locomotor training has gone mainstream, with at least 17 hospitals and rehab centers in the U.S. and a handful in Canada and Europe offering it. So far, the patients who have undergone the therapy number only in the hundreds, but about a third of them have been 21 or younger, a fact that is not only helping doctors spare the very patients in whom loss of mobility hits the hardest but also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Walking Away from Paralysis | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...conducted the kitten studies and had since moved to UCLA, got Reeve onto a treadmill and put him through some therapeutic paces. Two years later, Reeve's foundation launched its NeuroRecovery Network, sponsoring locomotor work at seven hospitals and therapy centers across the country, including the Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, Ky., where Chase undergoes therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Walking Away from Paralysis | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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