Mr. RB is a 70-year-old retired university economics professor. Prior to his SCI he lived independently in a wheelchair accessible apartment style condominium, had a grown child who lived across the country, and exercised at the local gym every weekday morning at 6 am. This fit gentleman of 180 lbs, 5’9” with no other significant co-...
Margaret is a 45 year old woman who has been working as a personal support worker in a group home for the past 14 years. She has a long history of back pain, and has been experiencing progressive difficulty with walking over the last year. A recent MRI showed multiple disc herniations, with compression at C5-C6. She was diagnosed...
Mrs. A.J. is an 84-year-old female with a T3, anterior cord spinal injury (SCI), severity C on the ASIA Impairment scale (AIS). Mrs. A.J. was in her driveway shoveling snow when she slipped and fell on some ice. Mrs. A.J. was not able to get up from the ground and was found lying there by a neighbour who was coming home from work and...
