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‘Superman’ star Christopher Reeve’s kids say accident changed his outlook: ‘Needed to break my neck to learn’ Fox News
Christopher Reeve doc ‘Super/Man’ leaves Sundance audience sobbing The Washington Post
‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Review: An Emotional Tribute to a Big-Screen Hero Who Became a Real-Life Inspiration Hollywood Reporter
Christopher Reeve’s Son Recalls Dad’s ‘Incredible’ Oscars Appearance After Paralyzing Accident (Exclusive) PEOPLE
Christopher Reeve’s Children Never Watched That ‘Flash’ CGI Cameo Variety

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15-year-old boy stabbed in neck during fight with tour bus ticket vendor in Times Square, police say CBS New York
Teen stabbed in Times Square after dispute with tour bus company worker Eyewitness News ABC7NY
Times Square stabbing: Teen stabbed, several arrested after dispute with Top View Sightseeing Double Decker Tour Bus worker in NYC WPVI-TV
Man fatally slashed in troubled Manhattan park, teen stabbed in Times Square New York Daily News
Teen stabbed in Times Square after dispute with tour bus driver Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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Chicago woman Ma Operio dies after ‘car-jacker’ Reese Miller ‘ZIP-TIED her neck as he stole her Toyota’ in cri Daily Mail
Carjacker left note apologizing for attack, four days later victim died, prosecutors say Chicago Sun-Times
‘It seemed to be the only choice’: Suspect leaves note inside victim’s car after violent attack WANE
‘It seemed to be the only choice’: Suspect allegedly leaves note inside victim’s car after violent attack WGN TV Chicago
Woman violently attacked during carjacking in Harwood Heights WGN News

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Drunk passenger on Delta flight kisses flight attendant on ‘neck’; held Hindustan Times
‘Wasted’ Delta passenger in first class accused of forcibly kissing flight attendant: court docs Fox Business
Delta Passenger Accused Of Grabbing, Forcibly Kissing Flight Attendant: Report NDTV
Delta First Class Passenger Kissed Flight Attendant, Broke Pilot’s Meal Tray After Being Denied A Cocktail View from the Wing
Texas man charged for kissing a male flight attendant on Delta flight, tells him he’s beautiful Indiatimes.com
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Federal lawsuit filed over Kenosha police officer who put his knee on a 12-year-old’s neck while breaking up school fight CNN
12-year-old girl sues off-duty Kenosha officer, school district and city arguing her rights were violated when the officer knelt on her neck for more than 20 seconds Yahoo News
Family of 12-year-old girl files lawsuit against Kenosha officer seen kneeling on girl’s neck WISN 12 News
Kenosha officer’s knee on neck leads to federal civil rights lawsuit FOX 6 Milwaukee
Family files lawsuit against Kenosha officer accused of kneeling on 12-year-old girl’s neck ABC News
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Russell Gage left Monday’s game on a backboard and was transported to a hospital. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Russell Gage left Monday’s playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys on a backboard after a frightening injury late in the game. He was taken to a local hospital to be evaluated for a concussion and neck injury and kept overnight for observation.

Cowboys safety Donovan Wilson made contact with Gage’s head after an incomplete pass late in the fourth quarter of an NFC wild-card game. Gage fell to his rear after the pass, and Wilson hit him from behind, snapping Gage’s head forward. Wilson wasn’t targeting Gage’s head. He was already committed to the tackle when Gage fell.

Gage appeared to try to stand up from the hit, but couldn’t. He remained laying on his back. Players from both teams surrounded Gage as athletic trainers tended to him. After several moments, athletic trainers placed Gage on a backboard and eventually lifted him onto a cart, where he was taken off the field.

Tuesday morning, the Buccaneers confirmed Gage had suffered a neck injury and a concussion on the play and had movement in all his extremities.

“After suffering a neck injury and concussion during the fourth quarter of last night’s game, Russell was taken to a local hospital where he remained overnight for additional testing and observation,” the team statement said. “Russell has had movement in all extremities and will continue to undergo additional testing today. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.”

Play resumed after Gage left the field Monday in a 31-14 Cowboys win. Bucs head coach Todd Bowles told reporters after the game that Gage was able to move his fingers while on the field after the hit.

Gage was initially listed as questionable prior to Monday’s game after he injured his back on a touchdown catch in Week 18.

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After staring at a computer screen for hours at a time, the body often gives us a clue that it is stressed: nagging neck and back pain.

To fix the problem, you might have gotten advice to focus on posture or ergonomics, but exercise research points to another strategy as well – taking short spurts of movement throughout the day to release tension and stress in the body.

“As a society, the assumption is that we have pain because of poor posture and slouching,” says Kieran O’Sullivan, an associate professor of physiotherapy at the University of Limerick’s School of Allied Health in Ireland. “But [the issue] isn’t as neat and tidy as we thought. We have been trying all these fixes [with ergonomics] and it has arguably not fixed the problem. I think it is more about needing breaks from the working day with … movement.”

Here’s how researchers think quick hits of movement – sometimes called exercise “snacks” – may help prevent pain. When the brain senses physical or emotional stress, the body releases hormones that trigger muscles to become guarded and tight. Exercise counters that stress response by increasing blood flow to muscles, tendons and ligaments and sending nutrients to the spine’s joints and discs.

Fitness specialists at NASA, an agency where people work in high-stress seated positions, developed a set of 20 one-minute exercises to prevent pain that anyone can do at their desk. We’ve chosen five here for you to try.

Movement is also hydrating for connective tissues and joints, reversing the stiffening that arises with too much sedentary behavior, says Dr. Helene Langevin, director of the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, which recently funded more than a half-dozen studies on connective tissue and pain.

“Taking small breaks and moving around throughout the day…prevents your body from ‘congealing,'” Langevin says.

Movement snacks can also have broader health benefits. Brief bouts of movement, from gentle to vigorous, repeated several times a day, can improve cardiovascular health, halt muscle loss, reduce all-cause mortality, and reduce stress, physiology and movement experts say, citing a growing body of medical studies.

Stretch, flex or even fidget

Any kind of movement works – from yoga poses to walking briskly around the room or running up several flights of stairs.

The NASA program included seated marches, standing calf raises, push-ups with hands on the desk, standing leg curls and neck, shoulder, and back stretches.

A man was stabbed in the neck with scissors near Times Square Saturday as revelers packed the streets watch the ball drop and ring in the new year, cops and witnesses said.

The slashing occurred around 8:45 p.m. New Year’s Eve when a fight broke out between two men on West 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, police said.

A tourist visiting from San Diego to watch the New Year’s Eve festivities for the first time told The Post the victim grabbed a pair of scissors from his backpack when the attacker landed a punch, knocking him out.

The knifeman then knocked the weapon from the other man’s hands and stabbed him.

“A guy with a book bag got knocked out. He was digging through his book bag. The guy with the bag was holding scissors. He pulled 2-inch scissors out of his bag. The guy who hit him knocked the scissors out of his hand and jabbed him in the neck three times,” the man, who only wanted to be identified by his first name, Brandon, said.

“He was bleeding pretty bad in his neck. He did damage when he stabbed him with the scissors … When I saw him digging through the bag, we moved away.”

Cops reportedly arrested the attacker and transported the victim to the hospital.

Brandon’s girlfriend Bailey said the brawling duo both looked drunk. The attacker had been sitting with a girl and a case of beer, she said.

The attacker had been sitting with his girlfriend and a case of beer, a witness said.

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Another witness, Gabriel, 22, said there was a lot of blood.

“I was staring at the ball and I saw a big commotion and I saw someone do this like three times to someone’s neck,” Gabriel said, making a stabbing gesture.

“I saw a bunch of blood so I’m assuming he got stabbed. Everybody was yelling ‘yo it’s not worth it!”

Brandon and Bailey said the bloody New Year’s Eve attack would stop them from visiting the Big Apple again for the celebration.

The stabbing was the second in the square on Saturday.

“When people ask me how the ball dropped, I’ll tell them that story … I will say I saw some guy get stabbed in the neck in New York City. Very typical New York City,” Bailey told The Post.

“I probably won’t see the ball drop again.”

The scissor stabbing was the second in Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

A man was stabbed “about eight times” at 11 a.m. near Seventh Avenue and West 40th Street

The night before, a man was knifed a few blocks away from Times Square at West 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue.

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A Utah man is facing charges after allegedly bringing a straight edge razor blade on a flight and holding it near a passenger’s throat.

The incident comes just weeks after a man brought two box cutters through security and onto a Frontier Airlines flight en route to Tampa.

Merrill Darrell Fackrell, 41, allegedly boarded a JetBlue flight Monday at JFK Airport in New York en route to Salt Lake City. During the flight, Fackrell was in the window seat next to a woman, when he allegedly placed his hand in front of her screen and told her to pause her movie, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Utah. The woman then realized Fackrell was holding what appeared to her as a knife, “inches from her skin at her throat/neck area,” the release said.

The woman’s husband then went to the front of the plane to get assistance from a flight attendant. The woman lunged for the aisle to escape and Fackrell reached and tried to stop her by grabbing her shoulder, according to the release.

The object was secured and later identified as a wood-handled straight edge razor with a one-to-two-inch blade.

In a statement to ABC News, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it “take[s] our responsibility to secure the skies for the traveling public very seriously.” The agency said it’s introducing new X-ray technology at more airports to improve the capability to detect items such as the one used in this incident.

Fackrell was later charged with Carrying a Weapon on an Aircraft and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in the Special Aircraft Jurisdiction of the United States.

“Crewmembers responded by working to de-escalate the situation and notified law enforcement who met the flight in Salt Lake City,” JetBlue said in a statement Friday. “The safety of our customers and crewmembers is JetBlue’s first priority, and we will support law enforcement during their investigation.”

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A young mum-of-two has opened up about how a sore neck led to a diagnosis of 19 rare and chronic health conditions that have left her bedridden for most of the day.

Meaghan Kiely, 38, from Bunbury in Western Australia, has spent the past year in and out of hospital after a routine visit to a physiotherapist to strengthen her neck muscles following a skiing injury in 2009.

The appointment, which was in January last year, ended badly, with Meaghan suffering a bulging disc in her neck while doing the prescribed exercises.

Over the next six months she had severe migraines which forced her to quit her job as a behavioural therapist for children with autism.

Her speech soon became affected, her brain was foggy and she lost consciousness if she tilted her head backwards.

Meghan Kiely with her husband before the family were forced to move across the country for medical help after finding she was suffering from several dilapidating health conditions

Meaghan Kiely, from Bunbury, about two hours south of Perth, has spent the past year in and out of hospital after suffering a bulging disc in her neck in January, 2021 during a routine physio appointment

Doctors discovered that Meaghan had the genetic disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) – which affects the skin, joints and blood vessels, and was exacerbated during her visit to the physio.

Meaghan was then told that her brain had herniated and she developed Chiari malformation – a condition where a part of the brain pushes through the opening at the base of the skull.

Meaghan started suffering the first of many seizures in August last year, and now has a team of eight specialists working around the clock to help her deal with her many health disorders.

In another blow, tumours were recently found on Meaghan’s brain and spine with the young mum now needing to relocate to Sydney to receive treatment.

‘Each day is different, my husband and I basically have to manage each day based on which symptoms are flaring up and which symptoms are most present,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.

‘A good day for me is if I manage to get out of bed for an hour or two, and even then I can take a few days to recover.’

The young mum and her husband (pictured with their children) have both had to stop work to cope with the toll of her various chronic illnesses

Ms Kiely has shared regular updates of her illnesses to her social media pages

After her first seizure in August last year, Meaghan spent a week in a coma in the ICU.

When she finally woke up, she was temporarily paralysed on the right side of her body and had to learn how to walk again.

One of Meaghan’s many illnesses is a chronic inflammatory disease of her oesophagus.

It means her stomach doesn’t empty properly and her throat ‘thinks it’s having an allergic reaction’ to everything she tries to eat or drink.

She now has a tube in her nose that helps her get the nutrients she isn’t able to through eating.

‘It’s a struggle, its hard for me seeing Meg constantly in pain,’ her husband Selwyn Titus, who lost his job after taking time off to care for his wife, said.

‘She’s the bravest person I’ve ever seen in my life. I just feel helpless, because I’m a strong person and I can’t do anything to help her… I’d take the pain away if I could.’

The family were living in regional Western Australia when they were advised by the rural medical staff that they didn’t have the facilities to treat Meaghan, so the family packed up and moved to Melbourne.

A lover of travel, Ms Kiely and her family have travelled across Australia on several adventures – before her illness left her bedbound most days

Her health battles have been tough on her two young sons, aged four and seven, who Meaghan says have ‘caught on’ to the severity of her challenges.

‘My condition means I can’t walk properly sometimes, Selwyn has to basically lift me up and support me, and my four-year-old is constantly checking on me and asking if I need help walking today,’ she said.

‘I’m so incredibly proud to see how compassionate they are, but I’m so sad they’ve had to learn that lesson so young and in the way that they have.

‘It affects them emotionally. They really try to hold it in to be strong.’

Ms Kiely has been diagnosed with 19 chronic health conditions – and recently spent a week in a coma in ICU

Meaghan has provided regular updates on her Instagram page, and in one emotional video opened up about the mental toll of living with chronic pain.

‘I’m mourning the life I used to have because I’ve realised that I’m not going to get that back, that will never come back,’ she said.

‘I’m constantly hurt, what kind of life is this? I’m taking in the impact that this is having on my family, on my husband, on me, on my future on my goals.’

In another post she detailed the difficulty in wanting to be there for her sons.

‘Each day I get up I do my best to put myself together, not for anyone else but myself and for my kids. I may look normal, but it takes everything I have just to get ready most days.’

The mother said something that hit home was when her son was asked in his kindergarten class to draw a picture of what his parents did during the day.

‘He drew me in bed. That broke my heart,’ she said.

‘It is for my kids that I fight to get stronger, healthier and find answers to why my body is failing me.’

Not only does Meaghan now need cervical spinal fusion surgery to stabilise her neck, she will also need brain surgery to decompress the pressure in her skull.

‘My neck is constantly half dislocating when I move it. The surgery on my spine is to stabilise, it because the risk is if I have a bad seizure I could paralyse myself,’ she said.

Ms Kiely (pictured with her children) has provided regular updates on her Instagram page, and in one emotional video opened up about the mental toll of living with chronic pain

Her family have started a GoFundMe to help raise money for the many medical procedures she needs

The recent diagnosis of the tumours in her brain and spine will also need treatment.

The family are yet to learn if the tumours are cancerous, but are flying to Sydney to meet with specialists.

With both parents out of work, the family has set up a GoFundMe to help them cover the costs of Meaghan’s constant medical appointments.

The mother is hoping she can help shed the stigma around chronic illnesses.

‘Chronic illness is so hard and isolating, and you feel alone so often,’ she said.

‘You feel like you’re constantly fighting because you feel like people don’t believe you, but I want chronic illness sufferers to know that what you are going through is real and it looks different for everybody.

‘Don’t compare your experience to someone else and think its any less valid.’

Despite the horror past year and more difficulty on the horizon, Meaghan is determined to keep fighting.

There isn’t yet any indication of what her recovery may look like but she’s hopeful her upcoming surgeries my take away some of the pain.

‘When the blows keep coming… I’ll keep standing up again,’ she said.

Meaghan Kiely’s 19 chronic health conditions

Narcolepsy – a neurological sleep disorder characterised by chronic, excessive attacks of drowsiness during the day

Pituitary tumour – an abnormal growth that develops in the pituitary gland in the brain. Almost all of these tumours are non-cancerous

Degenerative Disc Disease C1-6 – the degeneration of a disc in the cervical part of the spine

Non-epileptic seizures

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome – a group of disorders that affect the connective tissues – mostly the skin, joints and blood vessel walls

Gastroparesis – a condition that affects the movement of muscles in the stomach. Symptoms can include nausea and vomiting

Chiari Malformation Type 1 – a condition where the section of the skull containing a part of the brain is too small or deformed. This mean too much pressure is put on the brain

Eagle’s Syndrome – a condition characterised by chronic pain in the throat and face

Occipital neuralgia – a distinct type of severe headache in upper neck, back of the head and behind the ears

Chronic Migraines

Eosinophilic esophagitis – a chronic immune system disease

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) – condition where someone repeatedly experiences symptoms of anaphylaxis such as hives and difficulty breathing

Dysautonomia – a disfunction of the nervous system

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) – refers to the symptoms that come from a person sitting down to standing up. Symptoms include lightheadedness, fainting and rapid heartbeat

Dehiscence semicircular canal right ear – an abnormal opening between the upper part of the inner ear and the brain

Widespread Pain Syndrome

Fibromyalgia – a condition where someone may experience widespread pain, fatigue and cognitive issues

Endometriosis – a condition where the cells similar to the lining of the uterus, or endometrium, grow outside the uterus

Ovarian Cysts

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