Dual Impact
Amanda Lalonde’s clinical narrative reflects on the power of her patient’s resilience, and its impact on both his recovery and her sense of self as a clinician.
A Voyage Homeward: Fiction and Family Stories—Resilience and Rehabilitation
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”A Voyage Homeward: Fiction and Family Stories—Resilience and Rehabilitation” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Marshall P. Duke, PhD” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540759941583{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Storytelling and Human Health Let me tell you a story. Now that I have your attention—and I hope and believe I do—consider with me why an invitation to listen […]
They Have a Story
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”They Have a Story” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Emilly Munguía Marshall, SPT” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540834595253{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I was in the second week of my very first clinical rotation in general medicine rehabilitation while in physical therapy school. My clinical rotation was in a facility that cares for patients with acute medical […]
Embodied Narrative: Living Out Our Lives
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Embodied Narrative: Living Out Our Lives” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Rita Charon, MD, PhD” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540309636304{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I am honored to help to inaugurate The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation. The birth of this journal is a watershed event, for it signals a wide and deep connection among those in […]
Reflections on Writing Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Reflections on Writing | Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Marilyn McEntyre, Ph.D.” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540836066188{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] It has been said that every book is an answer to a question. Mine was. Patient Poets originated in a question that fueled a lasting interest in poetry written […]
Murderball — A Metaphor for Recovery
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Murderball — A Metaphor for Recovery” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Sarah Caston, PT, DPT, NCS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540304739935{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In the dimly-lit school of the medicine auditorium, I watched the film Murderball1 in awe as gruff, tattooed, strong men slammed their wheelchairs into one another, blocking their opponents and leading the […]
Enough Said
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Enough Said” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Keenan Whitesides, PT, DPT, NCS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540303784286{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I would imagine most therapists have had a patient like Ms. G. After suffering a stroke, she slipped into the hospital without insurance, without a supportive family, seemingly without hope. She was outwardly defiant and refused […]
Context is Everything
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Context is Everything” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Rebecca Gene Crockett” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540308330168{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]“If she were in the United States, things would be better for Cathrine, wouldn’t they?” her father whispered. There in Belize, on the opposite side of the small living room, his seven-year-old daughter with quadriplegic cerebral palsy was engaged in […]
More than the Sum of his Symptoms
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”More than the Sum of his Symptoms” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Allison Nogi” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1540312284033{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I reviewed Mr. Jones’s chart first thing in the morning. His seemed to be a simple case: a fifty-one-year-old man diagnosed with dehydration that had resulted in acute vertigo. His lab values were all […]
