His left hind foot, which developed a crippling and often-fatal condition known as laminitis, is also improving.

In the 1950s, following a decline in the number of tuberculosis cases, the sanatorium began treating patients with other crippling conditions.

In recent months, the long-simmering argument has erupted into an online brawl over the most humane way to handle an often crippling condition.

Bishop worked from his apartment in New York despite crippling medical conditions including blindness in one eye, difficulties walking, and cancer.

The painful and crippling condition eventually required surgery on his hands.

Yet the I.M.F. insisted on imposing a series of crippling conditions.

This often crippling condition, which can develop years after a person witnesses a traumatic event, causes sufferers to constantly "re-live" events.

But there are even more crippling conditions around the corner.

"The problem arises when the only opportunity to prevent this child from living with a lifelong crippling condition is being denied her," he said.

They see the budget deficit, now about $300 billion, as a crippling condition that left unattended will rob America's next generation of its birthright.