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The Challenged Athletes Foundation Just Gave Out $7 Million in Grants. Here's How Families Can Apply.
...prosthetics to athletes who need them. Who's Eligible. CAF grants support individuals with permanent physical disabilities that impair mobility, neuromuscular function, balance, or motor control. Applicants must provide medical verification of their disability from a licensed professional. First-time applicants...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Gait Trainers for Children: When Walkers Aren't Enough
...alignment during each step. It guides the reciprocal pattern of walking, left foot, right foot, left foot, in a way that repetition builds into neuromuscular memory. Here's what the physical therapist is seeing when they look at your child in a standard walker: a child spending so much effort just maintaining...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
4 Paws for Ability Gives Service Dogs to Kids
...first hand what it is like to be rejected by the top service dog agencies. After she was given a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune neuromuscular condition that required her to be on a ventilator, life seemed bleak. A nurse encouraged her to consider getting a dog to help with mobility. Shirk...
News > Research
FDA Expands VYVGART Approval to All Adults With Myasthenia Gravis. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...population, many of whom had no FDA-approved targeted therapy specific to their antibody subtype. Generalized myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes muscle weakness affecting daily activities, breathing, and swallowing. The expanded approval covers patients who test positive...