It's stunning to me how functional quad's are today. When I busted my neck in the 80's, it was rare to see a quad. in a manual chair. They just didn't have the balance or the arm strength to be able to get around. I could pick a quad or a para from just a snapshot from the shoulders up. I lived in the hospital for 8 months, I can remember just one C5-6 female quad that was able to do transfers on her own. I was a part of the ground breaking studies from the 80's that studied the effect of high dose steroids on spinal cord injuries. I remember how they stopped the study early and rushed the findings out just ahead of a 3 day weekend. They stated that the results were so astounding, it would be unethical not to release their findings considering the magnitude of a spinal cord injury. At one point I was completely paralyzed from a C5-6. At 3 months after injury, I started getting muscle function back so fast, it was difficult to keep up with which group of muscles to work on from 1 day to the next in P.T. When I was discharged from the rehab. hospital I went home in a rental wheelchair waiting for my new chair to arrive. When it came in 2 months later, I didn't even take delivery of it. The only thing I was using the rental wheelchair for, was getting dressed.
Praise the lord....am Joseph from India. 33yrs old. My spinal cord was injured. Now from my chest part to legs there's no sensation. Please help me please
Do you have second hand motor weelchair i am a paraplegic patient and need a motor weelchair to so that I start my study but i don't have enough money to bye a motorweelchair please help me
It's stunning to me how functional quad's are today. When I busted my neck in the 80's, it was rare to see a quad. in a manual chair. They just didn't have the balance or the arm strength to be able to get around. I could pick a quad or a para from just a snapshot from the shoulders up. I lived in the hospital for 8 months, I can remember just one C5-6 female quad that was able to do transfers on her own. I was a part of the ground breaking studies from the 80's that studied the effect of high dose steroids on spinal cord injuries. I remember how they stopped the study early and rushed the findings out just ahead of a 3 day weekend. They stated that the results were so astounding, it would be unethical not to release their findings considering the magnitude of a spinal cord injury. At one point I was completely paralyzed from a C5-6. At 3 months after injury, I started getting muscle function back so fast, it was difficult to keep up with which group of muscles to work on from 1 day to the next in P.T. When I was discharged from the rehab. hospital I went home in a rental wheelchair waiting for my new chair to arrive. When it came in 2 months later, I didn't even take delivery of it. The only thing I was using the rental wheelchair for, was getting dressed.
Praise the lord....am Joseph from India. 33yrs old. My spinal cord was injured. Now from my chest part to legs there's no sensation. Please help me please
Do you have second hand motor weelchair i am a paraplegic patient and need a motor weelchair to so that I start my study but i don't have enough money to bye a motorweelchair please help me