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2006-04-27 11:26:24 by dlane_bl

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I am having problems with the knee 4 some time, I went in 4 a revision They found it was infected. They took all the parts out. & placed a spacer with anti. I am having a nurse come to my home everyday to run IV anti.along with oral anti.The pain is so bad. I feel like~I'm climing up a wall with it. The Dr. has told me the infection has been there for some time with how bad the infection was. He has also told me it may take up to a yr. to clear up. I did not know U can't walk without a joint there without falling to the floor. I am now walking with a walker, and using a wheelchair. Looking for someone to E-Mail back a forth that may have gone though this. Please help ! Take my mind off of this ? as I am now climing up walls in pain...Thanks for taking a few mins.to read this.
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Yes. my step dad had one and the same thing happend. hes pkay now though. We never thought hed recover.

2006-06-01 22:10:24 by Nancy D

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Padded armrests are standard
The seat is made from a durable and lightweight nylon upholstery and a seatbelt is added for safety
Back composite wheels require virtually no maintenance and incorporate dual-seal precision bearings

Great ideas are born at universities, where students are challenged to think up new solutions to problems. Once class is over, these ideas often gather dust. At the University of South Florida, however, a small company is now turning great student ideas into reality. Rather than have student inventions remain on the sketchpad or be purchased by someone else, Rehab Ideas is striving to put them to use.

Rehab Ideas is run by Professor Stephen Sundarrao. He introduces his engineering students to people with disabilities. Then, he asks his students to create products that will help these people.

A few years ago, Travis Watkins was one of Sundarrao's students. When Watkins was asked to design an engineering project to help people with disabilities, the first person who came to mind was his father. His father had once cherished walks along the beach. However, an illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease had left him in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Regular wheelchairs cannot go on the beach. So Watkins came up with a solution. He created a sturdy, wheeled platform that attaches to a wheelchair. It moves easily over uneven, rocky, or sandy ground.

Watkins' wheelchair platform is one of a handful of student creations that Sundarrao believes has potential. Other Rehab Ideas products include an aluminum crutch that folds up neatly to fit into a purse. There is also a mechanical arm that can grab a textbook out of a backpack attached to the back of a wheelchair. Rehab Ideas products add to a commercial field that includes replacement body parts, swimming fins for people who have lost limbs, and adaptive equipment for hunting and fishing.

Rehab Ideas products range in price from $695 for a tray that attaches to a wheelchair to $4,495 for the beach wheelchair platform. Student designers get a small cut of the profits, said Sundarrao. More importantly, they have the experience of seeing their designs become real products for sale. This is an opportunity that most college students don't get. It is made possible because Rehab Ideas is part of the University of South Florida's business incubator. A business incubator is a program that helps young businesses get started. For a price, the University of South Florida's business incubator gives students and faculty support and guidance. It also provides materials and work space.

There are many business incubators at universities around the country. Mike Shipp is director of rehabilitation services at Louisiana Tech University. He says that business incubators not only help businesses, but the universities, too.

"I think what universities recognized several years ago is, if you want to attract … and keep good [teachers], and bring new students in, you have to do what you can to support their research and ideas," Shipp said. "Everyone gains from that."

Sundarrao and his students are certainly gaining from the university's support of Rehab Ideas. The company's clients are benefiting, too, but in a different way. Christopher Rhoades is 19. He uses a wheelchair. Recently, Rhoades visited Sundarrao's class. His mother accompanied him. She watched as Rhoades maneuvered the wheelchair platform designed by Travis Watkins. She cried as Rhoades used the mechanical arm to take a book from the backpack behind his wheelchair.

"It just seems so simple but yet it's such a huge thing. [It is] one less thing that he has to ask someone else to do for him," Rhoades' mother said.

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2008-12-20 16:24:07 by iƒяεѕн ƒяεακ ™

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I am an ex addict. I had gotten very addicted to sniffing coccaine years ago. I am fully recovered now, which is by the grace of God above only. Except for one relapse, I have been clean from it for going on 16 years now, and been free from drinking alcohol for going on 3 years. A near fatal and severe car accident in 1996 had almost left me crippled indefinitely, had it not been for my will to want to walk and better my life again. I spent 2 years in a wheel chair, and was actually told that I would never walk again. But I wanted better, becaue I had not one cent to buy myself new things, and people were treating me like crap. I had also began to gain quite a bit of weight, and at the peak of it, I weighed 405 lbs. at one point. Anyway, after 2 years of being in that wheel chair, I decided to have a surgeon, against his wishes, operate on me and take out the long metal rods from my legs. He reluctlantly did, and I slowly but surely began my journey back to the walking world. In between that time, just after my 1998 surgery, my grandma passed away. A month after her death in the same year, my uncle, who was her son, committed suicide. A month after he killed himself, my mother just suddenly died unexpectantly of a massive heart attack. She was like the best part of what small world that I had at that time. So these deaths, mainly hers, set me back in a depression state of being, which almost caused me to just give up myself. But I pushed through it, and went through undescribable emotional and physical pain. I began to get my self esteem back, which was lost due to family and friends' abuse while I was in the wheelchair and couldn't fend for myself. But I made it, I worked out, and worked hard at it. And now, 10 years later from my family's deaths, here I am; I am waking, running, kicking, and I now weigh not 405 lbs that I did weigh, but I now weigh about 220. I feel great. I am very happily married to a wonderful woman, been m arried going on 3 years now. I had to tell all of this, which I had posted here in Yahoo a time before concerning guilt, in order to ask my medication question. So here goes the question: I had started having some severe cramps and pains in my knees and ankles. I had crushed one knee in the wreck, broke both ankles, and fractured the other knee pretty badly, and had also broken about 3 inches of bone in my upper right femur (leg). Anyway, The pains had started hurting me more, and preventing me from doing certain things that I wanted to do. I have been told several times that I am in need of total knee replacements, but the doctors want to hold off as long as they can due to my age and how long the knee replacements lasts. They would only be able to replace my knees twice, with each time lasting 8 to 10 years. After that, I would prolly be chair/bedridden. Anyway, my family doctor had me start going to a pain management doctor for my problems. The doctor started me on some medication, and I am taking 10/325 mg oxycodone pills, 5 times daily, and also 30 mg extended release morphine pills, 3 times daily. They have tried the anti-inflamatory medicines many times, and some of them I am allergic to, and the otehrs dont work, but just make me gain weight. Sometimes the charlie horses that I get are so unbearable, I come to tears during those episodes. Anyways, Since I have been on those meds, everything in my life has improved. My work performance and stability at my job, which requires standing up 10 to 12 hrs daily. I am able to ride that bicycle that I was told I would never be able to ride. I just can do so much more. Like I said, I have never been addicted to anything except the sniffing of cocaine, which I have been in remission really for about 16 years minus one setback. The pills are very addicting as I have read, but I am not developing that addiction to them. So my questions is that my wife is constantly worrying about me taking those types of medications, being that they are narcotics; and she worries to the point at times to where she totally stresses over them. She is afraid that they are going to kill me, or that they will lead me right back to ujsing cocaine again. I keep telling her that it ain't happening, but she still worries. My doctor is a very good and very careful doctor, and she monitors me with those meds closely. How can or what can I do to calm my wife once and for all that the meds are really helping me, and not a hinderance at all? Since I have been taking them, the charlie horses that makes me cry sometimes have diminished a great deal, and so has the other pains that I was having. But also, should I be worried too, that they will lead me back to the cocaine and booze? It hurts me that my wife is so worried that she becomes agitated and stressful, but I don't know what to do. Her getting that way causes me to worry as well. Can anyone out here provide me with any feedback? I know that I have come

First of all, I have to commend you on your strength. Bravo for fighting to walk again! I also take my hat off to you for staying clean. I have been addicted to prescription meds, and both of my parents are alcoholics, it killed my dad =(
So it would appear that I am at risk to becoming addicted again. That is something I fear very much. I am now married to a wonderful woman, and have 3 great kids and 2 stepsons that I care for very much. It is the fear of failing them that keeps me straight, friend. I have my own set of aches and pains, and am not here to compare mine to yours, but I am here to say that a healthy fear of failing due to any type of drugs may be just what you need to keep yourself straight. Perhaps you can explain this to your wife.
I wish you all the very best, and again, bravo to you for all you have accomplished!

2008-08-30 03:30:19 by Nicholas B