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Hope - The Transverse Myelitis Association (TMA)
Hope - The Transverse Myelitis Association (TMA)
Here was the big message everyone in
attendance walked away with: neural restoration is possible. This is
actually a mantra we all should learn and repeat daily. To quote Dr.
Cristina Sadowsky of Johns Hopkins and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, we
are capable of “achieving significant, incremental improvement at any
time following injury.” I repeat: at any time. Whether you were injured
yesterday or like me, seventeen years ago, you can improve.How many of you long ago gave up on the
idea your condition would ever change? That’s what the doctor no doubt
told you soon after your injury. “I’m sorry, son, there is no recovery
from this.” Before this conference, I believed that almost as a matter
of doctrine. This paralysis is it, I figured. It could only get worse,
not better. My sole focus, outside of exercise, has been trying to avoid
nasty falls, skin breakdown, and infection. Every time I read in the
newspaper about a “breakthrough in paralysis” or some such miracle on
the horizon, I turn the page. Years away and too late for an old-timer
like me, I’d tell myself. I don’t tell myself that anymore.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Federal regs for auto dealers costing US economy more than $10B, study says | Fox News
Federal regs for auto dealers costing US economy more than $10B, study says | Fox News
I wondered why the newer cars all seem to have a higher front, sort of box look to them.
I wondered why the newer cars all seem to have a higher front, sort of box look to them.
Regulation is increasingly limiting the design perimeters for new
cars, too. Testing has revealed that serious injury can result when a
pedestrian's head strikes the hood. The hood itself acts as a cushion as
it crumples, but that cushion effect ends as the hood impacts the
engine block.
The new regulations require most new cars have a three-inch space between the hood and the engine block.
But designers can't just raise the hood line three inches without
throwing the entire design out of whack. The windshield and windows must
be smaller. The lip, where the sheet metal rises to the base of the
windows, must be higher. The seats, too, must be higher so the driver
can see over the higher hood, andthe wheels have to be bigger, lest they
appear out of scale with the new proportions.
It's all money well spent, said safety expert Clarence Ditlow of the Center for Auto Safety.
"The cost of regulation saves lives, prevents injuries, prevents
paralysis and overall the government takes into consideration and cost
benefit already and if anything, there's too little auto regulation and
not enough," he said.
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