Tag: Shepherd Center

In Atlanta, Evolation yoga studio offers a special course for those with traumatic brain injuries, developed by nonprofit Love Your Brain. It teaches modified poses in a calm, open environment and encourages participants to talk about what they are going through—something I greatly appreciated when I took the course to see if it would help me with the TBI I sustained five years ago.

These five Atlanta athletes represent a range of disciplines and abilities, but they’ve all got one thing in common—a staggering amount of determination, something that even the most casual exerciser could probably use more of.

Researchers at Georgia Tech and the Shepherd Center create technology that allow people to control wheelchairs with their tongue, and an awesome tongue piercing.

Maybe James Kinsey swerved to avoid an animal. Maybe his cell phone rang. Maybe, as the investigating officer suspected, he dozed off at the wheel on Old Fountain Road, just a half mile from his home in Dacula, after a long night shift. Whatever the cause, his Chevy Aveo crossed into an oncoming lane and was struck by another car. Too tall for the Chevy’s tiny cabin, the six-foot-one Gulf War veteran smashed his head against the door frame. The seat belt saved his life.