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Thursday, February
22nd
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What Kind of
Assistive Technology Do You Need if You Break your Neck?
Graham H. Creasey, MD, FRCSEd
VA Palo Alto Health Care System |
This is a field trip to the VA
Palo Alto Health Care System campus in the Spinal Cord Injury Service. The
class will convene in Building 7, Room E111 at 4:30pm. Due to space limitations, it is open to enrolled students
only.
Abstract: Breaking your neck can
affect nearly every part of your life. Physically, you may be paralyzed from
the neck down, with no feeling in the body, unable to control your bladder or
bowel or sexual function. Obviously, this affects you emotionally and socially
- your education, work, house, travel, and relationships. What can assistive
technology do to change this?
The industrial revolution gave us new
tools, special beds, mattresses, wheelchairs and cushions, catheters, implants,
and many other gadgets. The microelectronic industry has revolutionized
communication and control of equipment in the environment; if you can control a
computer, you can control many other things. What about controlling paralyzed
muscles? What about curing paralysis?
Biosketch: Graham
Creasey, formerly the Chief of the Spinal Cord Injury Service at the VA
Palo Alto Health Care System, serves now as Staff Physician at VAPAHCS. He is
also the Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor of Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
at Stanford University. He attended the University of Edinburgh Medical School
in Scotland and completed specialty and sub-specialty training and
accreditation in Surgery and Spinal Injuries at the Royal College of Surgeons
of Edinburgh. Along with his clinical role, he has been actively engaged in
research, mainly on the restoration of bladder, bowel and sexual function using
electrical stimulation. Dr. Creasey is also dedicated to training junior
physicians and retaining outstanding young physicians in the VA Spinal Cord
Injury System of Care.
- Contact
information:
- VA Palo Alto Health Care
System
- Spinal Cord Injury
Service
- 3801 Miranda Ave.
- Room C115, Building 7
- Palo Alto,
CA 94304
- gcreasey -at-
stanford.edu
- Links:
- VA Palo Alto Health Care
System
- Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders
(SCI/D) Center
- Palo Alto Polytrauma
Rehabilitation Center
- Spinal Cord Injury /
Disorder Center
- Adaptive Sports
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Assistive
Technologies: The Benefits for Returnees
Debbie J. Pitsch, MPT, GCS, ATP
VA Palo Alto Health Care System |
Abstract: The Assistive
Technology (AT) Center serves veterans with brain injury, polytrauma, ALS, and
other conditions. Featured products will include Augmentative and Alternative
Communication (AAC) Aids, alternative computer access devices, electronic
cognitive aids, electronic aids for daily living, specialized seating &
powered mobility, and adaptive sporting equipment.
Biosketches: Debbie
Pitsch is a Physical Therapist who has worked at the Palo Alto VA since
1999 and joined the Assistive Technology Center team in 2010. She has over 20
years of experience working with veterans with neurological and orthopedic
impairments including polytraumatic head injuries and amputation care in acute,
outpatient, and rehabilitation settings. Her primary areas of expertise in
assistive technology are adaptive sporting, prosthetic training, and ambulation
devices. She has been certified as an Assistive Technology Professional through
RESNA since 2010.
- Contact
information:
- Debbie Pitsch, MPT, GCS,
ATP
- Physical Therapist
- Assistive Technology
Center
- VA Palo Alto Health Care
System
- 3801 Miranda Ave., Building
7
- Palo Alto,
CA 94304
- 650/493-5000 x 62544
- debbie.pitsch -at-
va.gov
- Field Trip
Material:
- Video - not available
- Photos - 1.29 Mb pdf file
- VA
Assistive Technology Center brochure - 219 Kb pdf file
- Links:
- Meeting
our returning combat veterans in the classroom - Jonathan R. Sills, PhD -
2010
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