Pain Management as a specialty is concerned with the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of painful disorders. The diagnosis relies on a thorough history and pain-oriented physical examination, including interpretation of diagnostic tests, and may require specialized diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
The simple answer is that he was not always as disabled as he is today. Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963. The doctors initially gave him two years to live but the disease's onset was not as rapid as they had expected. Two years later, he was still walking, albeit with a stick. Hawking was married to his first wife, Jane Wilde, on the 14th of July 1965.
The Official Website. Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller.n 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663.