Thank You!

Thanks for reading, all of you who are following from Canada, the USA, the UK, Belgium, India, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Pakistan, and Russia. I hope you found something challenging and useful in these posts; the conference can be challenging, and these little posts barely get at the substance of what happens here, either in terms of...

Panel: Tommy, Karim, Dale, David

David is going through a quick recap of what has been presented since lunch. He says he’d like to open this by talking about funding, especially as it relates to talking about the broken system for paying for rehab. One of the small things we’ve done by way of persuading the government to spend money...

Dale Hull, MD

Thanks, Matthew for the invitation to be here today. I’d like to remind you of the Power of One. We’re all here today because of Marilyn Smith. Her son Noah was injured in 2003, and her response to that is why we’re here. (Applause, amen.) Sarah, Luke, Kylie, James (he shows their pictures, along with...

Tommy Sutor, MS, CSCS

Acute Intermittent Hypoxia: A Scientific and Personal Odyssey Take home messages (do them first so we can follow along!) Acute intermittent hypoxia shows great promise to improve many motor functions in chronic sci. Everybody has a role in making this happen. I'm a physical activity guy who was looking for a dream job when I...

Karim Fouad, PhD

I've tried to compress two topics into one talk … first I’m going to talk about training — and you see the small print “in animal models.” We're starting with Rehab in Rats. Why study this? I want to understand what happens in the nervous system when it uses training to recover. We used to...