The Spinal Cord Injury Association of Kentucky will network with state, federal, public and private agencies to raise awareness of people with spinal cord injuries and advocate for their needs.
Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates under contract with Easter Seals Project ACTION is assembling a toolkit for bus stop accessibility and safety assessment. The toolkit will be available to transit and public works agencies, as well as disability advocates, providing methods on evaluating bus stop accessibility and designing accessible stops. The toolkit will address a broad range of issues, including usage by people with a variety of disabilities, optimal bus stop design and bus stop environments.
They will begin selling their one-of-a-kind cookbooks on August 26, 2004 for only $10 each. They may be purchased from any member of the organization or visit www.derbycityspinalcord.org.
The cookbook contains 200+ well-loved recipes including appetizers, main dishes, desserts and many others. Recipes include the contributor's name, enabling you to find the recipes of family and friends. The recipes are not complicated you will probably have the ingredients already. Some extra features include a Nutrition guide, fat facts, safety guidelines, and suggestions for lowering fat content in your diet, guidelines to losing weight, and much, much more! You can find it all inside this great cookbook.
New treatments and medications for traumatic spinal cord and brain injury are the goal of a major research partnership announced yesterday between the University of Kentucky and Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital.
UK, the region's trauma center, and Cardinal Hill, a nationally known rehabilitation hospital, have long been partners in the clinical setting. About 58 percent of all Cardinal Hill's traumatic spinal cord injury admissions are referred from UK.
UK medical students and residents, as well as student nurses and therapists, get rehabilitation and physical medicine training at Cardinal Hill.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Christopher Reeve died, Alexander Rabchevsky received e-mails and phone calls from friends and family across the nation, as if he had suffered a personal loss.
In a way, he had. Rabchevsky, who is paralyzed, said people with spinal cord injuries are a tightly knit group with a common understanding.
And the connection ran deeper than that. Rabchevsky has dedicated his life to helping others suffering from paralysis, just as Reeve did after a horse-riding accident.
SCIAK’s HELP SCIAK recently donated $1000 to help with funding a container to Afghanistan . In addition to the wheelchairs that will be shipped, we are sending a large donation of medical equipment such as, an ultrasound machine, EKG, doppler, hospital beds, tables and many other items that we will be able to donate to Maywand Hospital in Kabul. We have been storing our containers and distributing wheelchairs at the hospital for two years now and would like to be able to give them this incredible gift. In October 2004, The Mobility Project returns to Afghanistan to donate more than 300 wheelchairs, the medical equipment and w e will hold our first sports camp for people with disabilities in Afghanistan .
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 8, 2004) -- Michael Brent was a typical high school athletic star – he played basketball, baseball and golf. But this former Henry County High School student’s life took a different turn when he fell asleep at the steering wheel of his car, crashing it and leaving him paralyzed. That was in 1997. Fast forward to 2004 and you will see that Michael Brent is still a star – shining bright in life.
Brent, a senior broadcast journalism major in the University of Kentucky College of Communications and Information Studies, will receive UK’s Adelstein Award at 3:30 p.m. April 8 in 206 Student Center on the UK campus. The award is given by the UK Disability Resource Center to students with disabilities who are inspirations to others.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (June 28, 2004) -- DIFFERING VIEWS ON CONTROVERSIAL STEM-CELL RESEARCH
`Research is promising'
With all the recent discussions surrounding stem-cell research and former First Lady Nancy Reagan's support of this research, I am encouraging all Kentuckians who believe in this research to contact their state and federal legislators, the Governor and President Bush and let them know that you want them to support stem-cell research.
The Board of Directors consists of the Officers, Past President and the Board Members At Large. The group meets on the third Monday of each month at Frazier Rehab Institute, 220 Abraham Flexner Way, Louisville, Kentucky 40202. The meetings begin at 6:30PM and run until 8:00PM. All interested individuals are welcome to attend.
Michael Brent was in a car accident on July 21, 1997 as he returned home for PGA Valhalla Golf Course in Louisville, KY. He had been caddying on an extremely hot day, unknowingly became dehydrated and blacked out while driving home. Michael had earned an academic/golf scholarship to attend dcollege and was working all summer to improve his game in order to compete at the collegiate level.
The organization, which was originally founded to help Michael with immediate financial burdens, has turned into much more. We are now a non-profit 501(c)(3), volunteer based, organization that raises funds primarily for spinal cord injury research, grants for victims and their families, spinal cord injury prevention/awareness education and scholarships for locally active high school graduates. We are also one of three founders of the NEW Spinal Cord Injury Association of Kentucky.
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New treatments and medications for traumatic spinal cord and brain injury are the goal of a major research partnership announced yesterday between the University of Kentucky and Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Christopher Reeve died, Alexander Rabchevsky received e-mails and phone calls from friends and family across the nation, as if he had suffered a personal loss. 
SCIAK’s HELP SCIAK recently donated $1000 to help with funding a container to Afghanistan . In addition to the wheelchairs that will be shipped, we are sending a large donation of medical equipment such as, an ultrasound machine, EKG, doppler, hospital beds, tables and many other items that we will be able to donate to Maywand Hospital in Kabul. We have been storing our containers and distributing wheelchairs at the hospital for two years now and would like to be able to give them this incredible gift. In October 2004, The Mobility Project returns to Afghanistan to donate more than 300 wheelchairs, the medical equipment and w e will hold our first sports camp for people with disabilities in Afghanistan .
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 8, 2004) -- Michael Brent was a typical high school athletic star – he played basketball, baseball and golf. But this former Henry County High School student’s life took a different turn when he fell asleep at the steering wheel of his car, crashing it and leaving him paralyzed. That was in 1997. Fast forward to 2004 and you will see that Michael Brent is still a star – shining bright in life. 
The Derby City Area Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association is a membership organization for individuals with spinal cord injuries, their families and health professionals. Founded in 1984 as a Charter Member of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, it was incorporated under IRS code Section 501© 3 as a not- for-profit organization. 
Michael Brent was in a car accident on July 21, 1997 as he returned home for PGA Valhalla Golf Course in Louisville, KY. He had been caddying on an extremely hot day, unknowingly became dehydrated and blacked out while driving home. Michael had earned an academic/golf scholarship to attend dcollege and was working all summer to improve his game in order to compete at the collegiate level.