Rick Andreen celebrates a Christmas dream come true—the freedom to breathe.
Ever since her teenage years, Samantha Searl had accepted knee pain as part of life. Not until age 48 did she discover she didn't have to live that way.
After a motorcycle accident and two hip surgeries, Antonio Kilgo gets back on the open road—but sees life with new eyes.
After seven years, lung failure patient asks her doctors, “Am I still the sickest patient you ever had that lived?”
Football referee battles back from a critical knee injury.
Not all strokes happen quickly. But quick action still makes all the difference.
After a broken foot slowed her pace, a 93-year-old Michigan woman found renewed health in a customized fitness program.
Martial arts practitioner who ‘died three times’ credits his medical team and the love of his life with saving his life.
After overcoming her fears, a Michigan woman undergoes successful knee replacement surgery—and it changed her life.
At age 17, Shawn Wieland suffered a traumatic brain injury in a winter car crash. Twenty years later, he's back to walking and playing guitar.
After a fall from a 16-foot ladder, physical therapy is helping Carl Prowant get his elbow back into commission.
The Grand Rapids Symphony and Spectrum Health music therapists perform in a special event for nursing and rehabilitation residents, family and friends.
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