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MDA’s award-winning bimonthly national magazine goes to everyone registered with MDA, as well as to MDA clinics, researchers and subscribers.
Quest publishes articles on all aspects of living with a neuromuscular disease, and updates on research findings. Quest’s circulation is 125,000.
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Check Out the New Digital Version of Quest! |
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Game to Get Away
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Online games provide an alternate world
in which to play, say gamers with neuromuscular
diseases. Here’s a primer of terminology,
gaming options, social tips and
info on how playing may affect muscles.
In addition, Kid Quest, page 69, provides
Internet gaming safety tips for kids.
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Stories by Topic
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Quest
Volume 3, Number 4, Fall 1996 
FEATURES
- You've Got to Be Kidding!
Doctors and comedians have both discovered that humor is serious medicine for people with disabilities.
- Is Laughter the Best Medicine?
Medical studies indicate that laughter boosts levels of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, and suppresses
levels of epinephrine, the stress hormone.
- A Call for Safety
When emergencies strike, there's no substitute for being prepared. Fires, accidents, poisonings and other emergencies
can occur anywhere, without consideration as to whether someone in the household is in a wheelchair or has
some other mobility problem. See also Tips for Home Emergencies.
- Desperate Remedies
Heart transplants for people with muscular dystrophy were unheard of just a few years ago, but today they're saving lives.
- Fight Against Contractures
Physical medicine and physical therapy offer an array of techniques to delay and diminish muscle contractures.
- Do-It-Yourself Devices
Necessity has given birth to many ingenious, low-cost, homemade devices for people with disabilities.
- Marvelous Mandy
Meet MDA's 1997 National Youth Chairperson.
- Vitale Receives Achievement Award
Anthony Vitale says he has met many wonderful people he wouldn't otherwise have known because of ALS.
Without irony, he says he can well understand the famous words of another accomplished man who had ALS, Lou Gehrig:
"I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
- Task for Teens
Figure out how to pay for your college education. Put your research skills to work and create a
financial aid package.
- Research Updates
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