After surviving a life-threatening MRSA infection, Gary Jones experienced chronic pain. Although surgery saved his life, it damaged his ability to use his right hand. Gary was unable to continue...
Mike McFarland's lifelong health complications have never slowed him down. His plans to complete a marathon were delayed after a training injury. He found support and healing through the RESTORE...
Special agent and golf-enthusiast Paul Weyland spent hours on the golf course unaware of his spine damage. He sought heat-powered Intracept treatment after a rare infection made his pain unbearable.
Hannah Brewer has always had problems breathing through her nose. She thought, however, that all of her breathing issues were caused by seasonal allergies. Find out about Hannah's rhinoplasty for...
Which brings us to Craig's story. He knew from an early age that the state with the powder he wanted was Utah. Fortunately, U of U Health also has the...
At just nine years old, Lila Williams has already proven herself to be a daredevil. On the day after her ninth birthday, Lila spent most of her recess time mastering...
After a stroke, Su Lee knew he needed help with his heart murmur. So, experts and robotic technologies at University of Utah Health gave Lee a new lease on life.
Bentley Hofhine loves playing sports, and it’s something he has done for most of his life—since he was four years old. In October 2022, at the peak of the football...
While celebrating his daughter's birthday at a trampoline park, Alan landed awkwardly on a 45-degree trampoline and felt something tear. Eventually this led to him seeing a foot and ankle...
Emotions were running high on Rakell Weber’s first Mother’s Day as a new mom four years ago. After a stressful third trimester of her pregnancy, on April 22, 2019, Rakell...
“It has been a hard road, but it has been the best thing I ever did for myself.” This is how DeAnn Barfuss describes the emotional weight loss journey she...
Miranda was struggling with debilitating depression and suicidal ideation after trying countless treatments and therapy prescribed by her doctor. The team of mental health experts at Huntsman Mental Health Institute...
In September of 2020, Dru Gylten, a University of Utah Women's Basketball player, felt a pinching sensation in her hip and groin area. Thinking it was normal muscle soreness from...
Dori Schmalzle isn’t the kind of person who lets pain stop her. So when the 63-year-old started feeling pain in her right shoulder the fall of 2021, she thought the...
Cali Hinckley should have been quietly asleep in her bedroom, curled next to her 2-year-old daughter that June afternoon. But as her husband watched football downstairs, his phone rang, her...
On a spring evening in 2021, Meaghan McFarland left her apartment in Layton for a walk with her dog. She never saw the Ford F350 speeding toward her at 50...
At first, Tyler Lintz thought he could push through. He was a firefighter after all, a fit, active dad of three, so a sore throat, fatigue, and cough — not...
Cathy Hinshaw, now 76, was no ordinary 1950s girl. She grew up playing not one, not two, but three sports—all incredibly well. At college in California, she joined the basketball...
From a young age, Connor Fields remembers being competitive—very competitive. He played in a lot of team sports as a child growing up in Las Vegas and always wanted to...
Back in 2004, anyone that walked into Randy Oldham's would be met with an unexpected sight: a bed in the middle of his kitchen. While many found it strange, to...
Kelly Carnahan was no stranger to chronic back pain. She'd tried numerous back pain treatments with little to no relief until she underwent spinal cord stimulation. "I can do things...
Spencer Brown had a lot of exciting events coming up in his life—a graduation and a new baby—but things suddenly changed when he suffered a spinal cord injury. Just a...
At 24 years old, Lala Juarez was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension. With medication, she was able to keep her symptoms from worsening, but a lung transplant was the only...
