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New paralysis/rehabilitation
Especially for those new to the paralysis community - this is a place to learn, to listen, to ask any question you have about trauma or disease. You are not alone: Share with others who have been in your shoes and who have faced your issues. This is the place to talk about rehab and recovery, too.
UPDATE ON NEED INFORMATION
- By MILDREDP322 · New reply June 26, 2009
- 3 replies
- HI I HAVE AN UPDATE MY NEPHEW INJURIES ARE T12 INCOMPLETE DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT TO EXPECT PLEASE LET ME KNOW THANK YOU ALL ...
NEED HELP
- By MILDREDP322 · New reply June 20, 2009
- 7 replies
- HI MY NEPHEW WAS A VICTIM A GUNSHOT HE HAS PARALYSIS FROM THE WAIST DOWN HE IS 20 YRS OLD AND LIVES IN NEW YORK THE DR SAID HE WON'T WALK AGAIN DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A GREAT REHAB IN NEW YORK HE HAS MEDICAID ...
I want the best help available for rehab. Very Depressed.
- By Blondeyvonne · New reply May 31, 2009
- 23 replies
- I'm a 21 year old male who has been paralyzed since a car wreck 12-8-07 from my waist T8 down. I stay severely depressed and hopeless about my future. I cannot imagine living the rest of my life in a ...
I want to go outside!
- By dsindc · New reply May 29, 2009
- 7 replies
- I have a fresh, 3 month old SCI which has currently left me a c6 quad. 2 weeks post-op I started experiencing instances of Autonomic Dysreflexia's accelerating high blood pressure- the condition that ...
Step It Up is founded and inspired by Project Walk.
- By jslegal · New reply May 21, 2009
- 2 replies
- We all need to support inspiration and determination!! There needs to be more and more rehab centers/facilities to support the recovery of persons with paralysis! One such new facility is founded in 2009 ...
Scar Tissue
- By jaykay40 · New reply May 21, 2009
- 1 reply
- Hi, Everyone, I was injured in an MVA about 16 years ago and am a C-6 C-7 partial and T-5 complete. I am looking for some inpute from anyone with passed experiance or knowledge of my situation. About ...
swollen feet good or bad c6 quadriplegic
- By PATRMX250 · New reply May 15, 2009
- 6 replies
- I'm a c6 quadriplegic and I'm trying to find out what other quads do to prevent my feet to swell trought the day, also what are the side effects if your feet are swollen all day. asking for advise thank ...
Incomplete SCI - Is sex possible?
- By jennypooh · New reply March 29, 2009
- 28 replies
- Hi there. My boyfriend was in a car accident two weeks ago today. He fractured his spine between the 6th and 7th vertebrae. He has movement in his arms. For the first week he had no feeling in his chest ...
ER Idiots and Movement
- By angelbrd67 · New reply March 25, 2009
- 4 replies
- What a day... I took my son to the ER since his Dr didn't have room to see him. Respitory infection mild right now but they gave him antibiotics to keep it from getting worse. They did Xray's... When ...
thank u to all
- By luvnjeff · New reply March 21, 2009
- 4 replies
- hello i havent been on here n a while. to all who remember my son jamie had woke up one day unable to walk. Well they have finally figured out what was wrong with him. He had a viral infection that made ...
embryo stem cell research ban finally lifted
- By MARTY_T_67 · New reply March 16, 2009
- 18 replies
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_o n_go_pr_wh/obama_stem_cells ...
latest news on stem cell and our government
- By MARTY_T_67 · New reply March 9, 2009
- 1 reply
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_o n_go_pr_wh/obama_stem_cells ...
Complete or Incomplete
- By leanne3clark · New reply February 24, 2009
- 1 reply
- I just want to start out by letting everyone on here know how much you all have inspired me and helped me through some tough times. I was in a car wreck a year ago Feb. 6th. I went to the Shepard Center ...
Updated on cousin w/ staph..
- By tiffanyseal · New reply February 24, 2009
- 3 replies
- Thank you Jesus for all of you that prayed for my cousin Chandler. She has started to respond to the meds and is doing MUCH better. The doctors are going to keep her a little longer b/c they said it was ...
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FOR 7 YR OLD WITH STAPH
- By tiffanyseal · New reply February 22, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hey guys, I just wanted to ask everybody if they could please say a prayer for my cousin Chandler. She's 7 years old and fighting a MASSIVE STAPH infection. Its consumed her entire right leg, and has ...
Paralysis below my knees
- By hangglide · New reply February 15, 2009
- 17 replies
- I went hang gliding last summer and on 7-7-7, I crashed. After 21 years of hang gliding I bit the big one which caused a hemotoma in my lumbar and left me paralysized below my knees. I was a skydiver ...
Diaphragm Pacer for Vent Dependent People
- By Sammyhere · Posted February 1, 2009
- 0 replies
- Wanted to share great news about the diaphragm pacer that my friend had implanted recently. Hoping some of you can benefit too! He is a C1, totally vent dependent. He went to University Hospitals in Cleveland ...
GOOD NEWS...STEM CELL APPROVED
- By MARTY_T_67 · New reply January 30, 2009
- 12 replies
- the FDA approved a human embrionic stem cell trial on 10 participants that are 14 days out. FINALLY the USA can get started. check it out. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/23/ste m.cell/index.html?section=cnn_latest ...
new diagnosis
- By luvnjeff · New reply January 30, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hello well Jamie has been diagnosed with something different today they were saying it was MS now they are saying it is Idiopathic transverse myelitis. Does anyone know anything about this he is 14 years ...
Best Rehab in the World?
- By jennypooh · New reply January 7, 2009
- 11 replies
- Hi there. As you probably know, my boyfriend is recently at C6/7 incomplete. The rehab that he is at, is free because we live in Canada, but they want to send him home early. His work has offered to raise ...
