So, what happens when you donate? Where do your dollars actually go? It’s a good rule of thumb to know the answer to this question. Is this donation doing what it is supposed to be doing? The answer is YES! All donations, every single dollar, gets donated. Below are some of the items that have been purchased by the John and Melissa Besse Rehabilitation and Wellness Center with your donations to help those who have suffered from a stroke. Not only that, these items also help others who use the facility for an assortment of reasons and rehabilitation needs.
NxStep Unweighing System
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In 2020 a NxStep™ Unweighing System from Biodex was purchased that enables partial weight-bearing therapy in an open, accessible rehabilitation environment. Use over ground or for Body Weight-Supported Treadmill Training with the assurance of patient comfort and safety. The NxStep Unweighing System allows every patient the opportunity to get an early start on rehabilitation. Applications include: - Stroke - Spinal cord injury - Head injury - Amputees - Orthopedic - Neurologic - Vestibular - Older Adults
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Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Update® (RBANS® Update)
In 2020 the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Update® (RBANS® Update) was purchased which is a brief, individually administered battery to measure cognitive decline or improvement.
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Just for Adults™ Apraxia Cards
In 2020 the Just for Adults™ Apraxia Cards were purchased. Apraxia makes it hard to coordinate muscle movements and put sounds in the right order to produce intelligible speech. Aphasia is impairment in the ability to use or comprehend words, which is a common result after suffering a stroke. It may cause difficulty in understanding words, finding the word to express a thought, understanding grammatical sentences, or reading or writing words or sentences.
This step-by-step product lets the therapist engage clients with true-to-life photos and illustrated scenes, choose words by phonetic complexity from vowel first and consonant first word forms to multi-syllable words, use a systematic cueing hierarchy, reduce the language load for clients by using semantically-related words, and teach functional phrases and sentences. |