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Father Muller to host seminar on Physiotheraphy
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The Department of Physiotherapy, Father Muller Medical College is
organizing Two day workshop on "Physiotheraphy Management of
people with Spinal Cord Injuries" on 29 of February and 1st of
March at Father Muller Medical College Hospital. Dr. Lisa Harvey senior
Lecturer from the University of Sydney, Australia is the resource
person.
Approximately 15 lakh people in India live with Spinal Cord Injury
and number is seen to be increasing rapidly, targeting males between
the ages of 16-30 years. The diagnosis of spinal cord injury can be
devastating and frightening to trauma victims and their families.
Hence, Rehabilitation plays a significant role in long term care and
community based lifestyle modification.
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Expert on spinal injuries to speak at Princeton library
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Neuroscientist Dr. Wise Young, who was part of the team that discovered
and established high-dose methylprednisolone as the first effective
therapy for spinal cord injuries, is scheduled to speak on "The Hope
and Hype of Stem Cell Research" at Princeton Public Library on
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Young, a nationally recognized leader in spinal cord injury research,
will give the talk as part of the Christopher Reeve Lecture Series,
which honors the late Princeton-raised "Superman" actor and activist.
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Puppet teaches fire cadets about people with disabilities
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Spencer is a puppet, and his voice actually belongs to his "mom," Jan Goodwin, a professional ventriloquist from Alton.
Her
goal is to teach children, and sometimes adults, that people with
disabilities are just people, who are entitled to equal access and,
most especially, kind treatment. Instead of staring at or avoiding a
person with a disability, she said through Spencer, talk to him. Make
friends. Don't make assumptions.
"I'm not a spinal cord injury,"
Spencer said to fire cadets at Durfee Magnet School on Tuesday. "I'm a
kid with a spinal cord injury."
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Daughter is inspired by mom's injury
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 On hot summer night in 1994, Betty Uriegas' life changed forever.
For nine years, she had been a Hall
County Sheriff's deputy and served as the first female member of the
department's dive team. But in an instant, a violent car crash left her
a quadriplegic, unable to control her body below the neck.
That fateful moment also changed the life of her daughter, Betsy Hughes, in ways that neither of them could have imagined.
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Stockbridge grad overcomes accidents to graduate from UM
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It was May 24, 1998, a week before Jaffer Odeh was to
graduate from Stockbridge High School. He was driving home
from Jackson after working at his parents' restaurant,
Steve's Ranch, and fell asleep at the wheel.
Odeh's vehicle struck a tree en route to Stockbridge
and he broke his neck, suffering a spinal-cord injury. Now
he spends most of his time in a wheelchair, though he is
able to stand and walk short distances.
"I was up and running around as an athlete. All of a
sudden, things changed drastically," said Odeh, 26.
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Student remembered for overcoming disability, positive outlook on life
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Kristen Smith, a family studies senior, stood in the sun in the New North courtyard remembering her friend Michael Brent.
"We always sat outside and talked about all the things we had in
common," Smith said. "He never let his disability stop him; he had the
same dreams as everyone else."
Michael Brent, a UK graduate student who was left paralyzed after a car
accident in high school died last week from a viral infection. He was
27.
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Disabled students find Western's Hill accessible
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 Rob Scott has to get up the Hill, hunt for a parking spot and get to class on time.
The Bowling Green sophomore does all his daily tasks from his wheelchair.
Scott sustained a spinal cord injury while serving in the Army in 1998, and he uses a wheelchair to get around campus.
He faces challenges when dealing with construction around campus, and sometimes has trouble finding a place to park.
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Basile’s Hands-On Approach
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Relaunched Web site for
Determined2heal offers a wealth of advice to those with spinal
injuries, and the Potomac man behind it is thinking big.
Two days before the expected
launch of his nonprofit’s revamped Web site Josh Basile was in
his wheelchair in front of his computer, trying to pull it all
together.
Like
any self-taught Web designer, Basile hit a couple of snags coming down
the homestretch. Basile needed to find a different way to store some of
the pictures so they consumed less memory. Not all of the links that
the site would provide were active yet.
Basile worked out the kinks, and on Sunday Jan. 28, he lauched the vastly upgraded Web site for determined2heal.org.
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‘Superman' memorial, scholarship created at Cornell
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 Actor. Superman. Hero.
Those
three words adorn the plaque dedicated to Christopher Reeve that was
unveiled Saturday at Cornell University. The dedication came in
conjunction with the announcement of a scholarship created in Reeve's
honor, organized by his Class of 1974 classmates. Best known for his role in the 1978 film “Superman,” Reeve
was driven by a love of the craft, a passion that blossomed during his
three years at Cornell. That same drive was visible later in his life
when he struggled to come to terms with a 1995 spinal cord injury that
left him a quadriplegic.
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New Red Cross Training Course Aims to Better Serve People with Disabilities Following a Disaster
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“Serving People with Disabilities Following Disaster”
focuses on Red Cross policies and best practices for meeting the needs
of people with disabilities, based on the organization’s
commitment to relieve the suffering of all people, guided solely by
their needs.
In developing the course, the Red Cross partnered with the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties and organizations such as the National Organization on
Disability (NOD) and the National Spinal Cord Injury Association. The
course expands upon a Red Cross prerequisite, “Fulfilling Our
Mission: Translating Your Compassion into Community Action.”
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