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Tuesday, February
25th
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What Kind of
Assistive Technology Do You Need if You Break your Neck?
Graham H. Creasey, MD, FRCSEd
VA Palo Alto Health Care System |
This is a field trip to the VA
Palo Alto Health Care System campus in the Spinal Cord Injury Service. The
class will convene in Building 7, Room E111 at 4:30pm. Due to space limitations, it is open to enrolled students
only.
Abstract: Breaking your neck can
affect nearly every part of your life. Physically, you may be paralyzed from
the neck down, with no feeling in the body, unable to control your bladder or
bowel or sexual function. Obviously, this affects you emotionally and socially
- your education, work, house, travel, and relationships. What can assistive
technology do to change this?
The industrial revolution gave us new
tools, special beds, mattresses, wheelchairs and cushions, catheters, implants,
and many other gadgets. The microelectronic industry has revolutionized
communication and control of equipment in the environment; if you can control a
computer, you can control many other things. What about controlling paralyzed
muscles? What about curing paralysis?
Biosketch: Graham
Creasey was formerly the Chief of the Spinal Cord Injury Service at the
VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor of
Spinal Cord Injury Medicine at Stanford University. He attended the University
of Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland and completed specialty and
sub-specialty training and accreditation in Surgery and Spinal Injuries at the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He continues to be actively engaged in
research, mainly on the restoration of bladder, bowel and sexual function using
electrical stimulation.
- Contact
information:
- VA Palo Alto Health Care
System
- Spinal Cord Injury
Service
- 3801 Miranda Ave.
- Room C115, Building 7
- Palo Alto,
CA 94304
- gcreasey -at-
stanford.edu
- Links:
- VA Palo Alto Health Care
System
- Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders
(SCI/D) Center
- Palo Alto Polytrauma
Rehabilitation Center
- Spinal Cord Injury /
Disorder Center
- Field Trip
Material:
- Photos - Mb pdf file
- VA
Assistive Technology Center brochure - 219 Kb pdf file
- Links:
- Meeting
our returning combat veterans in the classroom - Jonathan R. Sills, PhD -
2010
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Adaptive
Sports
Shawna Hill, CTRS, RYT;
Jessica A. Radmilovic, CTRS; and Huy B. Diep
VA
Palo Alto Health Care System |
Abstract: Therapeutic Recreation
is based upon a holistic framework that allows the focus to be on all aspects
of improving an individual’s health and functioning. By providing
structured and unstructured therapy driven services, Therapeutic Recreation may
be used for:
- Improving physical
abilities
- Building confidence
- Promoting greater self
reliance
- Developing and/or enhancing of
leisure awareness and leisure skills
- Strengthening interpersonal
skills
- Empowering veterans to advocate for
positive self growth and change
- Exploring options for rehabilitation
and health through adaptive sports, recreation, and leisure
- Enriching and creating a meaningful
quality of life
Biosketches: Shawna Hill
is a lead recreational therapist at the Department of Veteran’s Affairs
Health Care System in Palo Alto. Her job is to find unique ways to recuperate
injured veterans and help them lead fulfilling, healthy lives. This includes
leading local veterans in wheelchair games, managing athletics for veterans and
patients, or inventing therapeutic activities such as arranging the branches on
a miniature Christmas tree.
Biosketches: Jessica A.
Radmilovic is a lead recreational therapist at the Department of
Veteran’s Affairs Health Care System in Palo Alto.
Biosketches: Huy B. Diep
is a recreational therapist at the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Health
Care System in Palo Alto.
- Contact
information:
- Shawna Hill, CTRS
- Recreational Therapist
- VA Palo Alto Health Care
System
- 3801 Miranda Ave., Building
7
- Palo Alto,
CA 94304
- 650/353-1029
- shawna.hill -at- va.gov
- Links:
- Adaptive Sports
- Painting
with Earl
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