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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 7, Number 6, December 2000
COVER
- Marvelous Massage
Michelle Lorenzini luxuriates in a soothing relaxing massage administered by Mara Concordia of Peaceful Spirit Therapeutic Massage Center in Tucson. Doctors, physical therapists and consumers agree: Massage has a lot to offer people with neuromuscular diseases.
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FEATURES |
- Keeping Your Focus: Eye Care
Although eye problems in neuromuscular disorders aren't usually severe, they can be persistent and annoying, and sometimes interfere with daily life. Here are some solutions.
- Ready for Action: Sarah Schwegel
MDA's 2001 National Goodwill Ambassador is a veteran of Association activities. Meet the girl with the twinkling eyes and a sense of humor to match, and see why she's already winning new friends for MDA.
- It's Carrot Top!
The red-haired comedian is a superhero to kids across the country who are served by MDA.
- Myotubular Myopathy: A Bright Future
With help from persistent parents, new research has discovered that the future for babies with this disorder isn't nearly so grim as once was predicted.
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- Service Dog or Psycho Dog?
Sometimes, rescuing a dog that needs a home and training it as a service animal is a success all around. Other times, the results are, well, more interesting...
- Studying Disability
A new academic discipline draws on many fields of study to put the experience of disability into a historical, cultural context.
- Getting More from the World Wide Web
People with disabilites are creating a veritable culture via the Internet.
- Connecting the MDA Way
MDA offers lots of ways for people to meet others living with neuromuscular diseases - in person or at a distance.
- Simply Stated...
Genetic Testing
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Research Updates
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