Swampy
01-15-2008, 09:14 PM
I know a guy who did 2 Tours in Afghanistan in the Marines, came back unscathed and managed to have a cement pole jump out in front of the corvette he was driving at well over 100 mph in WPB. Miraculously, this big guy was ejected through the roof of the corvette and landed in the middle of the road... no road burn at all. Trauma ambulance arrives and he gets into under his own power... lays down and the golf ball sized hematoma in his brain promptly shuts him down. He flatlined, they revived him, and when he woke up from his coma 2 weeks later he was paralyzed on his left side.
He received 5 months of Rehab in a VA Hospital and was scooting around in a wheelchair when they announced that he had plateaued and released him. His left side was 30% shrunken from atrophy. He was stunned and asked if there was anything else that they knew of that would help him. They said that they didn't know of anything, bye!
This young man happened to have a thriving lawn maintenance business, a home, and a beautiful fiancee waiting for him. He wanted his life back.
His family happened to remember a family friend who had invented a motor-assisted therapy cycle for his wife who had had severe strokes and was written off by Drs and PTs as "medically unviable" - told him to put her in a nursing home because she would only last 3 months, if she was lucky. That was the love of his life, his soul-mate. He invented this motor-assisted therapy cycle for her and kept tweaking it. Short of it is that they contacted him and the ex-Marine started using it religiously, 3 hours a day, every day.
Today, 21 months after the accident and just better than a year after starting his own PT on this motor-assisted therapy cycle, that young ex-Marine with TBI and left side paralysis is walking and talking, he has his business back up and running, his fiancee by his side, and was the Guest Speaker at the Marine Ball this year.
The motor-assisted therapy cycle is called the eVO by Assistive Therapy Solutions Inc of Florida. http://www.assistivetherapy.com
You can SEE this ex-Marine, David, on the website's latest video on the dropdown under NEWS on the left column. While you're there, take a look at the other videos with Kayla, a teen with spastic CP who was never expected to be able to get out of a wheelchair, and others. It isn't for everyone ... but they are working on it!
He received 5 months of Rehab in a VA Hospital and was scooting around in a wheelchair when they announced that he had plateaued and released him. His left side was 30% shrunken from atrophy. He was stunned and asked if there was anything else that they knew of that would help him. They said that they didn't know of anything, bye!
This young man happened to have a thriving lawn maintenance business, a home, and a beautiful fiancee waiting for him. He wanted his life back.
His family happened to remember a family friend who had invented a motor-assisted therapy cycle for his wife who had had severe strokes and was written off by Drs and PTs as "medically unviable" - told him to put her in a nursing home because she would only last 3 months, if she was lucky. That was the love of his life, his soul-mate. He invented this motor-assisted therapy cycle for her and kept tweaking it. Short of it is that they contacted him and the ex-Marine started using it religiously, 3 hours a day, every day.
Today, 21 months after the accident and just better than a year after starting his own PT on this motor-assisted therapy cycle, that young ex-Marine with TBI and left side paralysis is walking and talking, he has his business back up and running, his fiancee by his side, and was the Guest Speaker at the Marine Ball this year.
The motor-assisted therapy cycle is called the eVO by Assistive Therapy Solutions Inc of Florida. http://www.assistivetherapy.com
You can SEE this ex-Marine, David, on the website's latest video on the dropdown under NEWS on the left column. While you're there, take a look at the other videos with Kayla, a teen with spastic CP who was never expected to be able to get out of a wheelchair, and others. It isn't for everyone ... but they are working on it!