Self Help Guides
Note: Special thanks go to the many caring contributors, to Cheryl Schumer, the founder of the first HSP website, and to Thurza Campbell, who created and edited Synapse Newsletter. These great authors have provided us permission to re-print some of their articles. Some articles edited to fit space.
John K. Fink, M.D., SPF Medical Advisor
Community Self Help Guides
Accepting a cane
Accessible Vehicles
AFOs - tips on selection
Aide dogs
All Fall Down
Bidets - A Practical Aide
Canes - selection and use
Caregiver tips
Clothing tips for women in wheelchairs
Disclosing to a potential employer
Dos and Dont's for friends
Drugs - Issues with safety and side effects
DUI also refers to medication
Everybody knows, nobody cares (accepting devices)
Hand controls for your car
Home safety check-list
Massage - a medical tax deduction
Pain management
Patterned electrical neuromuscular stimulation
Scooters - thoughts to consider before buying
Tips on shoes
Stair Glides - suggestions
Speech, Bulbar
Living with bulbar symptoms - tips
Speech challenges
Stretching, Exercises
Stretching exercises
Why exercise is important to us
Gene Testing
Gene testing
Gene testing - opinion piece
Social Security
Social security disability programs - how to claim for disability
SSDI determination - behind the scenes
My Diagnostic Story
My HSP story - Aldert
My HSP story - Brad
My PLS diagnosis story
Appreciation, Inspiration
Appreciation
Keepers
Lessons learned
Letter to the Special People in my Life
Living with Disability
Open the Cage - dealing with a new identity
Perspectives
