Where all the cool wheelchair people hang out
A National Disability Insurance Scheme will ease the huge financial cost of living with a disability like spinal cord injury. What if it happened to your son, wife or mother. Could you drop your job put your life on hold and meet their care needs for the rest of their life?”
Radiology x-rays offer vital information to medical specialists after a spinal injury. The location and severity of damage revealed by x-rays directly determines the appropriate course of action to achieve best possible short and long term outcomes. MRI and CT scans further identify soft tissue and spinal cord damage.
Winner of the Audience Award and the Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992 The Waterdance is a film about coming to terms with paralysis and wheelchair life. Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to cope with his new found disability and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as…
11.5 Following primary and secondary hospital examinations a spinal cord injury is often diagnosed as a type of syndrome and a prognosis of long term expected outcomes is given. It’s important to remember spinal cord injury is about people’s lives not expectation. A full life is lived when you make the most of what you have got, not what you have lost…
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