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Welcome to the Don’t Worry, Do Wheelies Podcast! Are you recovering from a spinal cord injury and you’re looking to learn more about others experiences just like yours?Here we will learn all things post-SCI and listen to stories of healing all across the spectrum of SCI to…
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Walking Is the New Running | Episode 57 (opens the original)
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Almost everyone starts with the same goal: I want to walk like I did before the injury. This episode is about why that framing quietly sets people up to feel like they failed and what a more useful picture looks like. After a spinal cord injury, walking is your running and wheeling is your walking. Lorie describes the first months back on her feet, when ten minutes of walking bought her three hours flat on the couch, and the constant calculation she still runs today: when is pushing productive,
There Is No Crystal Ball | Episode 56 (opens the original)
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People send Abbie their injury level, their scans, sometimes the doctor's notes and ask what's going to happen. When she asks whether knowing would change anything, they say yes: they want to know the outcome before deciding how hard to work. This episode is about why that's a bad trade. Lorie's surgeon told her it was one of the worst spines he'd ever operated on, and that he didn't expect her to feel or move anything. She internalized it, expected a bad outcome, and did every single thing her
They Were Waiting For Her To Crack (opens the original)
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Lorie's doctors spent weeks waiting for her to break down after her spinal cord injury. She never did. This episode is about grief that doesn't look like grief, why there's no correct way to process a life-changing injury, and what actually goes wrong when you fake someone else's process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You're Not a Rehab Failure | Episode 54 (opens the original)
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Everyone says the goal after spinal cord injury is walking. It isn't. In this episode we make the case for independence as the real goal, the highest level you can personally reach, and push back on the idea that not walking means rehab failed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rethinking What Walking Does For You | Episode 53 (opens the original)
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Walking after spinal cord injury isn't one thing. We break down functional walking, actually getting places, versus non-functional walking, where standing and stepping serve your body instead of your destination. Non-functional doesn't mean purposeless: bone density, circulation, and bowel health all benefit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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