Frazier Rehab Institute Hosts "Walk to Victory Over Paralysis" - Archived

 

Frazier Rehab Institute Hosts “Walk to Victory Over Paralysis”
24 hour event benefits Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network®

 

Along with other centers in the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network (NRN) across the U.S.,  Frazier Rehab Institute, part of KentuckyOne Health, will participate in the inaugural “Walk to Victory over Paralysis,” a 24-hour walkathon fundraising event to rally support and fundraising for the Reeve Foundation.

 To demonstrate the importance and impact of the NRN, individuals living with a spinal cord injury will also participate with the assistance of a body weight support treadmill (BWST). BWST is part of locomotor training in which participants are supported by a harness and suspended over a treadmill, while specially trained therapists move their legs to simulate walking.

 WHAT:  Patients and supporters Walk to Victory Over Paralysis

WHERE:  Frazier Rehab Institute
             11^th floor gym
             220 Abraham Flexner Way
             Louisville, KY

WHEN:   Saturday, July 19, 2014
            10:30 a.m.

OPPORTUNITIES:

Interviews with Susan J. Harkema, PhD, NeuroRecovery Network Director for the Reeve Foundation, Director of Research at Frazier Rehab Institute, Professor and Rehabilitation Research Director at the University of Louisville Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center and Owsley B. Frazier Chair in Clinical Rehabilitation Research

Interviews with Kim Atkinson, director, Frazier Rehab Institute

Interviews with Julia Carstanjen, Frazier Rehab Patient

B-roll of spinal cord injury patients walking on body-weight support treadmill

B-roll of able bodied supporters and fundraisers walking alongside SCI patients

 

Special appearances and times:
                     9-10:30 a.m. - Churchill Downs Bugler and Churchill Charles mascot
                Between 1-3 p.m. - B-roll of the University of Louisville Cardinal mascot

For more information about the NRN and to donate to a Walk to Victory over Paralysis, please visit: www.ChristopherReeve.org/Victory2014.