Crutches

A Glen Burnie man was killed Saturday morning when he was struck by a truck as he tried to cross Ritchie Highway on crutches, county police said.Charles H. Evans, 31, of the 100 block of Marie Ave. was crossing Ritchie Highway at Eighth Avenue about 2 a.m. when a southbound 1986 Ford truck hit him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.The driver of the truck, Joseph Anthony Fiorino, 17, of the 8000 block of East Shore Road in Pasadena, told police he had not seen the victim until he was several feet away.

Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs announced on his Facebook page this morning that he is off crutches. “No more crutches! Beasting...” the 2011 NFL Defensive Player of the Year wrote about an hour ago. Suggs met Monday with doctors Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte so he could examine his surgically-repaired Achilles tendon . If the scar was fully healed, Suggs was likely cleared to begin his rehab at the team's facility....

Returning from a medical mission in earthquake-ravaged Haiti two weeks ago, Dr. Rana Hamdy reflected that one item sorely needed there was crutches. The Johns Hopkins Children's Center physician joined the center in making a public plea for the walking devices, and then she volunteered to store them in her garage, anticipating about 100 pairs. Within days, she ran out of places to put them. "We got to 1,000 pretty quickly," Hamdy said Tuesday morning as Hopkins employees loaded about 1,000 pairs of crutches, as well as canes and walkers, onto a FedEx truck to be shipped to Miami by today.

The holiday spirit seems to have evaporated this week from people who are not handicapped usurping handicapped parking spaces! I am a nurse who has had recent ankle surgery and am on crutches with limited weight-bearing, yet I have been unable to find a single handicapped parking space in Towson Town Center Mall or Cranbrook Shopping Center in Cockeysville. Instead, spaces are occupied by un-handicapped people who zoom into spaces right under my nose. Today I was leaning on my crutches, waiting for my husband in front of a handicapped parking space, where a non-handicapped woman sat in her parked SUV, talking on her cell phone.

Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs announced on his Facebook page this morning that he is off crutches. “No more crutches! Beasting...” the 2011 NFL Defensive Player of the Year wrote about an hour ago. Suggs met Monday with doctors Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte so he could examine his surgically-repaired Achilles tendon . If the scar was fully healed, Suggs was likely cleared to begin his rehab at the team's facility....

The morning after wasn't quite as dark as the night before for the Baltimore CFLs yesterday.Tracy Ham wasn't on crutches.Some 12 hours after the Baltimore quarterback suffered a slight tear of his right quadriceps muscle, Ham left open the possibility of returning to the lineup for Saturday's game in Hamilton."

Returning from a medical mission in earthquake-ravaged Haiti two weeks ago, Dr. Rana Hamdy reflected that one item sorely needed there was crutches. The Johns Hopkins Children's Center physician joined the center in making a public plea for the walking devices, and then she volunteered to store them in her garage, anticipating about 100 pairs. Within days, she ran out of places to put them. "We got to 1,000 pretty quickly," Hamdy said Tuesday morning as Hopkins employees loaded about 1,000 pairs of crutches, as well as canes and walkers, onto a FedEx truck to be shipped to Miami by today.

Americans are aging, and so are their joints and bones. As rickety bones have made walking harder for millions of the elderly, countless companies have created medical devices to make getting around easier, creating a thriving industry in the process. Consumers spent $31.2 billion in 2000 on durable medical devices, which include artificial limbs, canes, wheelchairs, crutches, canes and hearing aids. That's nearly double the amount spent 10 years before, according to federal figures. Invacare Corp.

Lakers@Celtics 8 p.m. [TNT] No Andrew Bynum (pictured with crutches), no problem. At least when the Lakers played the Knicks - though it always helps to get 61 points from Kobe Bryant. I'm going out on a limb and predicting Bryant doesn't get 61 against Boston. Which reminds me of how "Hot Rod" Hundley used to talk about the time he and Elgin Baylor combined for 73 points - Hundley scored two of them.

It all began a couple of years ago in Washington, when Steven Saleh called up Craig Kraft, an artist who makes sculptures using light, and asked him to make a pair of neon crutches.Out of that grew "Light as a Helping Hand," the exhibit now on view at the new Merrick School of Business building at the University of Baltimore. It's a show that uses light to address communities with special needs -- among them the sight- and hearing-impaired, people with seasonal affective disorder and people with AIDS.

O n land, Viki Anders has some trouble getting around. She walks with crutches, the result of a foot injury and a subsequent condition called complex regional pain syndrome. But in the water, she swims like a dolphin. Early Sunday, a few days shy of her 60th birthday, Anders eased herself into the pool at the McDonogh School and swam the butterfly for 1,500 meters, almost a mile. She did it to raise money for the Johns Hopkins Patient and Family Fund. It assists needy cancer patients and their families with expenses not covered by insurance during their treatment.

Returning from a medical mission in earthquake-ravaged Haiti two weeks ago, Dr. Rana Hamdy reflected that one item sorely needed there was crutches. The Johns Hopkins Children's Center physician joined the center in making a public plea for the walking devices, and then she volunteered to store them in her garage, anticipating about 100 pairs. Within days, she ran out of places to put them. "We got to 1,000 pretty quickly," Hamdy said Tuesday morning as Hopkins employees loaded about 1,000 pairs of crutches, as well as canes and walkers, onto a FedEx truck to be shipped to Miami by today.

Returning from a medical mission in earthquake-ravaged Haiti two weeks ago, Dr. Rana Hamdy reflected that one item sorely needed there was crutches. The Johns Hopkins Children's Center physician joined the center in making a public plea for the walking devices, and then she volunteered to store them in her garage, anticipating about 100 pairs. Within days, she ran out of places to put them. "We got to 1,000 pretty quickly," Hamdy said Tuesday morning as Hopkins employees loaded about 1,000 pairs of crutches, as well as canes and walkers, onto a FedEx truck to be shipped to Miami by today.

Lakers@Celtics 8 p.m. [TNT] No Andrew Bynum (pictured with crutches), no problem. At least when the Lakers played the Knicks - though it always helps to get 61 points from Kobe Bryant. I'm going out on a limb and predicting Bryant doesn't get 61 against Boston. Which reminds me of how "Hot Rod" Hundley used to talk about the time he and Elgin Baylor combined for 73 points - Hundley scored two of them.

On November 4, 2008, CARLTON "Mr. Collin" CRUTCH, SR. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Friday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends from 5 to 7 P.M. and on Saturday at 11:30 A.M. followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

Gov. Martin O'Malley says he learned a hard lesson last week: He's not 20 anymore. Hoping to add spice to his workout routine, the 44-year-old politician abandoned the elliptical machine in favor of some "high-impact running" on the treadmill, only to develop sharp pain in both knees. The pain in the right one went away, he said, but the left just got worse. A trip to the doctor Thursday confirmed that he had suffered a stress fracture in his left tibia and will be forced to use crutches for four to six weeks, he said.

LOS ANGELES -- Throughout Los Angeles, there are hundreds, probably thousands of them. Just look down and you'll see them -- the most common victims of the earthquake.Feet.Feet crushed by falling furniture. Feet slashed by shattered window glass or broken china. Feet fractured from panicky, pre-dawn leaps out of bed. By far, the appendages were the most vulnerable body parts when the land underneath them trembled.Hour after hour -- all night and all day on Monday as well as yesterday -- men, women and children hobbled into emergency rooms leaning on friends and family members.

Sandra Keeney can't stop talking about her daughter Michele's determination and spirit.Reliant on crutches since the discovery of a spinal tumor at 17 months, Michele still learned to ride a bicycle, drive a car and roller skate."

PHILADELPHIA - If the Philadelphia Eagles make it to Jacksonville and there's a water polo championship played in the team hotel's pool, you can probably count Terrell Owens in. But it remains a mystery whether Owens will or will not be able to play football on his surgically repaired ankle Feb. 6 if the Eagles are in Jacksonville, Fla., for the Super Bowl. "The next step would be to be able to run and change direction," Eagles coach Andy Reid said yesterday as his staff began preparations for Sunday's NFC championship game against the Atlanta Falcons.