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Local physical therapist pairs former patients with new patients to help newly disabled people learn how to cope
Jesse Gifford knows all too well how Matt Thomas feels these days.
Thomas has been confined to a wheelchair since July, when a mountain bike accident left him paralyzed. Gifford suffered a similar paralyzing injury almost 13 years ago after a diving accident. Continue Reading »
MTSU research brings amazing results
As miracles go, it’s not quite walking on water. But for paralyzed volunteers taking part in an MTSU study, walking in water is almost as amazing.
For the past eight weeks, university researchers have placed people with crippling spinal cord injuries on underwater treadmills — with impressive results. Continue Reading »
This is another in a long line of Miracles for Margaret.
Margaret Romph received her FES rehabilitation bike through insurance and can now begin an integral part of her rehabilitation in the comfort of her newly remodeled rehabilitation room.
Earlier this year, Margaret, her older sister Erin and their grandmother were involved in a serious accident, just outside of the Jefferson City city limits. Continue Reading »
New research suggests a tailored approach to physical therapy after a neurological injury such as a stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury could help restore a wider variety of functions.
Clinical physical therapy is a widely used treatment approach to help restore the motor function of patients following neurological injuries. Unfortunately many of the specific treatments used in the clinic only restore function to a specific task, and not to a wide range of everyday activities. This is also true in animal research where stand training only leads to better standing, step training only leads to better stepping, and so forth. Continue Reading »
Garrett Riggs, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., talks about whether retraining neurons can benefit patients with spinal cord injuries.
Garrett Riggs, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., talks about whether retraining neurons can benefit patients with spinal cord injuries. Continue Reading »
Riding his bicycle on a hilltop near his Canandaigua home May 30, Dr. Bradford Berk didn’t see any cars coming along the narrow North Vine Valley Road.
But rounding a sharp curve, he suddenly encountered an oncoming car “quite a bit over in my side of the lane,” said Berk, speaking publicly Thursday for the first time since he suffered a spinal cord injury. Berk is still on leave from his post as chief of the University of Rochester Medical Center.
The car forced him off the pavement, said Berk. “When I got off the road, my bicycle tire blew. As I continued to pedal, I ended up going over the handlebars.” Continue Reading »
MOUNT SHASTA – It’s been an emotional few weeks for 18-year-old Corben Brooks, who’s had to say goodbye as his friends, one by one, head off to college.
He might have been leaving, too, had a football injury three days into his senior year not left him mostly paralyzed from the chest down. But the former multisport athlete and accomplished student has been on his own journey, learning how to adapt to a life no one anticipated.
“It’s been like a roller coaster,” said Corben, who suffered a broken neck and spinal cord injury during a practice scrimmage on Aug. 22, 2008. “It’s definitely had its ups and downs.” Continue Reading »
When Brent Adams overshot a jump on a dirt bike in December 2007, he ended up with severe injuries that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
“I went way too high and way too far,” Adams said. “It was a bad deal for sure.”
But with help from an Atlanta therapy program and fundraising by Central Florida friends, he has new hope for mobility. Continue Reading »
An Australian first University of Melbourne and Austin Health study will test home-based online rehabilitation with video games to give spinal cord injury patients the hope of regaining the movement of their hands. Continue Reading »