Premroop Alva, 42 lives with a rare hereditary blood disorder - Haemophilia condition. He has extensively worked towards spreading awareness and talks of the travails of the condition and how it should be tackled to lead as normal a life as possible…
Jack (name changed to protect identity) is a 60 year old man in Singapore who struggled with reactive depression and is now on the way to recovery.
Background
Jack was working and living a fairly uneventful life with his wife and 3 daughters, until…
A year ago, Anand (name changed to protect identity) might easily have been any of the quiet pleasant young corporate professionals that one meets at work, or one of the family men that one sees with their kids in a mall. Except, behind the normalcy…
Shaila Bhagwat, 67 has Parkinson's which affects her right-side. She makes every effort to remain independent and self-reliant with an assorted and strict regimen of exercises, yoga, meditation, laughter and music therapy, gait training, handwriting…
Sometimes willpower can knock out even health adversities. As in the case of 72-year-old Rajendra M Thakkar, retired General Manager of Reserve Bank of India, who straightened out his speech impairment, a symptom of Parkinson’s, through sheer grit…
Mr Hari Prasad, who underwent the Deep Brain Stimulation operation about 3 years back to stall growing symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, is a happy and relaxed person today, sharing his views on PD and DBS.
Hari, how many years has it been since you…
It was ad in a newspaper that familiarized Anju Gupta, 54, an Indian settled in Canada, to QiGong, a Chinese system of physical exercises and breathing control that helped keep her fibromyalgia in check. Read how she came out a winner.
My problem…
Pranav Kumar Rajgopal lives on the Autism Spectrum and works as a Business Analyst. Read his interview with PatientsEngage and his wish for #AutismAwareness. Don't miss his feedback on how to interact with autistic adults at work.
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Back pain can be extremely tormenting and life-changing. Thyagi Thyagarajan, 71, recounts how he has fainted at airports, stopped his favourite sport tennis, and endured excruciating lower back pain for 10 years before he agreed to a surgery. He…
