#249 Personalized Ongoing Out Patient Therapy: The Push to Walk Story

In this episode, we talk with Cynthia Templeton, mother of Darren Templeton, who sustained a C5 incomplete spinal cord injury in July 2004 at the age of 18 after diving into shallow water at the Jersey Shore. Upon returning home, after attending outpatient therapy at a renowned SCI rehab facility in California far away from their home, together they sought to create a close to home out patient SCI therapy option in New Jersey for ongoing daily and weekly rehab.  Cynthia and Darren co-founded Push to Walk in 2007, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals with paralysis and neuromuscular conditions by providing state-of-the-art SCI exercise equipment, and activities based therapy premised on neuroscience findings of the power of the mind to focus intentionally on the exercise to enhance the outcome. Join us to hear about the Push to Walk community of clients, families, trainers, and researchers. For more info or to make a donation, please visit: https://www.pushtowalknj.org/

To be more involved with outpatient rehab advocacy and Neuro Activity Based therapy, visit ANABP.org.

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 A non-profit created as an essential national resource for Spinal Cord Injured families in the first days and weeks of SCI crisis when life turns upside down and few medical teams in the US have SCI expertise. Blink of an Eye non profit provides a rapid response HEAL Team for ICU bedside support to create an Extraordinary Experience despite the devastation for SCI families. Blink of an Eye non profit also provides a Multidisciplinary Family Navigation & Support Team for SCI families lead by SCI families and SCI medical experts who provide 24/7 support in the first 90 days of crisis and for transitions in the Miracle Year.  Stay tuned for their launch of a National Digital Resource Library, the SCI PLAYBOOK, chocked full of essential SCI information and trauma informed responses for the first hours, days and months after injury--what you need to know/say/do specialized for SCI families, friends and medical staff. To find out more and to make a donation, visit www.blinkofaneye.org.

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