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Gym gets people with disabilities in shape
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Because of a spinal cord
injury, Elizabeth Fust is paralyzed from the mid-back down, but don't
expect to see her sitting idly by, twiddling her thumbs, during her
leisure time. The
Louisville lawyer is a regular at a gym that Frazier Rehab Institute
has opened to members of the public who have disabilities. The
Community Fitness and Wellness Facility on the sixth floor of Frazier
in downtown Louisville has become a haven for people like Fust who
refuse to allow their disabilities to keep them from being physically
active.
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Gymnasium is fit for people with disability
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A COMMUNITY-based gymnasium for people with a physical disability has started in Sutherland Shire.The
Burn Rubber Burn centre is an initiative of the NSW State Spinal Cord
Injury Service, the RTA and the Police Citizens Youth Club. The gymnasium is at Sutherland PCYC, next to Sutherland Leisure Centre, off Rawson Avenue, Sutherland.
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Businessman proving doctors wrong
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A man who was told he would never walk again has taken his first steps since suffering a tragic accident.
Guy Harris was left with a spinal cord injury after being hit by a lorry in 2003 which left him paralysed from the waist down.
Doctors told him he would never walk again and tried to prepare him for the worst.
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Medical Marvel
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Doctors can't explain why Pat Rummerfield is able to run marathons and
race cars. Even so, there are scores of quadriplegics who long to
follow in his footsteps.
Beckman broke his neck in an Ocean City
diving accident during the summer of 2003. In an instant, he became a
quadriplegic. Catapulted into a wheelchair at age 19, he was told
that's where he'd forever remain. Yet here he is on a March morning
almost four years later walking in water, which for him seems almost as
remarkable as dancing upon it. Rummerfield, a senior staff member
at the spinal cord center, watches Beckman struggle to keep his legs
moving. To take Beckman's mind off his aching muscles, Rummerfield asks
about a ski trip Beckman recently took with a group of disabled
athletes.
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Cyclist McCune on road to recovery
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 It’s been just over six months since Jenny McCune became a commonality in locals’ hearts and prayers.
On July 5, the former Gallatin Valley Bike Club president, Team
Delphine rider and long-time Bozeman resident took a corner too wide on
her bicycle, crashed into a ravine and suffered a spinal-cord injury
for which doctors have little understanding and no cure.
In an instant, McCune went from an elite athlete to a woman without movement below her shoulders.
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VA To Add Spinal Cord Injury Center
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 The Syracuse VA Hospital is on the verge of a $78 million upgrade, complete with new technology and a six story addition.
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the center of the project will be a brand new state-of-the-art spinal
cord injury center. It's the VA's attempt to expand its services
as demand for them grows.
Paralyzed from the waste down for the last ten years, Air Force vet Steve Kraeger relies on the Syracuse VA hospital.
“It's a godsend, it's a blessing, especially this facility here and I’ve been in a lot of units."
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Intensive training can fuel repair in brain, spinal cord post injury
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Researchers at the University of Alberta have revealed that
intensive rehabilitation training for patients with spinal cord
injuries can stimulate repair in the brain and spinal cord.
They believe that these new branches growing from severed nerve fibres,
along with compensating changes in the brain that would help in
restoring hand function and the ability to walk.
The research led by Karim Fouad showed significant benefits of rehabilitation training after a cervical spinal cord injury.
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Athlete's challenge not on field, but in rehab
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 After Arquevious Crane was
transported from the intensive care unit via a stretcher to his room at
The Shepherd Center Thursday, the fallen South Gwinnett football player
showed just where his mind is on overcoming his debilitating spinal
cord injury.
Placed by staff on a bed, the 16-year-old Crane immediately asked to
be placed in a wheelchair. To Dr. Donald Peck Leslie, that action was
significant. "It meant
he doesn't want to lie in bed and not pay attention to what he has to
do," Leslie said. "His family tells me he's a very focused young man,
and that will help him tremendously."
Focused and spirited. When Leslie referred to him as "Mr. Crane," the 16-year-old responded: "Please call me 'Q.' "
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Craig Hospital Doctors Analyze Everett's Injury
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 Experts in spinal cord injuries at Craig Hospital in Englewood said
Monday there appears to be some signs of hope as Buffalo Bills' player
Kevin Everett is treated for a neck injury suffered during Sunday's
game against the Denver Broncos.
Doctors treating Everett in Buffalo said there are some signs of movement and sensation throughout Everett's body.
"There's some messages getting through that makes you feel a little bit
more optimistic that the cord wasn't hurt across its entire diameter,"
said Dr. Tom Balazy, Craig Hospital's Medical Director.
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Road to Recovery
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 One warm summer evening, Tamara Mena-Perez lay in her bed gazing at a row of medication bottles on her dresser.
She
started getting angry. It had been nearly a year after the car accident
that left her paralyzed below the waist, and she was supposed to be
getting better, not swallowing all these pills.
As she
stared at the bottles — emblazoned with "do not drink alcohol"
warnings — she had a moment of clarity; she finally understood.
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