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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.
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 ...
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 ...
shepard center
- By MsMonie · New reply January 5, 2009
- 1 reply
- I am trying desperately to get my sister into this facility. She is being denied because she only has NC Medicaid. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I need to do or who i need to speak with? Please ...
exercise
- By goldy24k · New reply December 12, 2008
- 3 replies
- What do y'all do for exercise? I try to exercise daily unless I feel to ill. I walk with crutches and stand at my standing frame and talk to my birds. I march in place and do kicks. I also have a whole ...
taking a poll, which do you recommend
- By 1newlife2 · New reply December 11, 2008
- 11 replies
- We are evaluating Rehab Institute of Chicago, versus Shepherd Center in Atlanta for inpatient. My brother's accident was on August 17th He is in a rehab center in St. Louis right now, however on bed rest ...
To the Newly Injured with SCI- Don't feel like you have to put on a brave f
- By tammysci · Posted December 9, 2008
- 0 replies
- A subject that I often hear from people with new spinal cord injuries is "how do you get your life back?" or "Accept your disability?"- I mentor people with new SCI- mostly women, but some men too. When ...
Overcoming T.B.I.
- By goldy24k · Posted November 30, 2008
- 0 replies
- I have a Traumatic Brain injury. I was wondering if anyone else in here has one? I got mine when I was struck by a car while walking home from school. It was in 1986. The lady was speeding. I would like ...
rehab and therapy
- By goldy24k · Posted November 18, 2008
- 0 replies
- I have a T.B.I. I got it from being struck by a car when I was almost 10. I have come a long way. I still have a ways to go. I want to know if any of you are head injury survivors, closed/open, and if ...
Any one with a stroke in the spila cord?
- By 1newlife2 · New reply November 17, 2008
- 9 replies
- I am writing on behalf of my brother: Is there anyone out there that has suffered a stroke in the spinal cord? Please tell me your story and chances of recovery. My brother's is in T2 through T9, he has ...
Any recommendations for either of these two rehab centers?
- By 1newlife2 · New reply November 17, 2008
- 8 replies
- Thank you Lucky dog. I will tell your story to my brother. Thanks ddom I will check on availability for hourly usage, not fun to live in a small town. ALL What experience you have with Rhabilitation Institute ...
Movement after spasms??
- By jennypooh · New reply November 14, 2008
- 3 replies
- Hi there, My boyfriend became an incomplete c6/7 on August 30, 2008. He has been having lots of spasms in his legs since the accident, but about a week ago, something interesting happened. He was having ...
Looking for a E-stim bike
- By 1newlife2 · Posted November 13, 2008
- 0 replies
- The profile is my brother's however I am writing on his behalf since he is still in the hospital. My brother was in a motorcycle accident on August 17th. Right arm is affected by C1 and C2, fused now ...
SCI COMPLETE-WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THE E-STIM BIKE, ELECTRIC STIMULATION
- By Blondeyvonne · New reply November 12, 2008
- 14 replies
- My son Bradley is 22 and has been paralyzed (complete) since his car wreck 12-07-2007. In working with his PT today she tried electric stimulation on his legs for the first time. In his left leg he could ...
Intermittent cathing - intermittent intake
- By garrett86 · Posted October 13, 2008
- 0 replies
- My son leaks when drinking water more than any other liquid. How much liquid is recommended inbetween cathing ...
Show me disability votes
- By goldy24k · New reply October 4, 2008
- 10 replies
- Yesterday I went to a politcal rally encouaging the people in the disabled comunity to get out and vote. Mom read a poem of mine and showed them one of my paintings. I wondered how many of you all vote ...
