Will Fund Adaptive Rowing Program
09/10/2004
(HARTFORD, Conn.) The Rehabilitation Hospital of Connecticut, a Saint Francis Care provider, has received a $6,300 grant from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation to create an adaptive rowing program for disabled individuals.
The grant is one of 126 Quality of Life grants awarded nationwide recently by the foundation. The grants program was established in 1999 by Dana Reeve, director of the foundation and founder of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center. Grants are awarded to programs and projects that improve the well-being of individuals living with paralysis, particularly spinal cord injuries.
Rowing is an ideal physical activity for disabled people at many different levels of ability,� said Paul Stillman, vice president of the hospital. We intend to use this program as a means to enhance life-long fitness and self-esteem for disabled individuals throughout the region.�
The grant will fund the purchase of three adaptive rowing shells and other necessary equipment. The shells will be based at the Greater Hartford Jaycees Community Boathouse in Hartfords Riverside Park. Staff from The Rehabilitation Hospital will work with Riverfront Recapture and the Connecticut Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association to promote the program and to enlist disabled rowers.
The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation is committed to funding research that develops treatments and cures for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other central nervous system disorders. The foundation also vigorously works to improve the quality of life for people living with disabilities through its grants program, paralysis resource center and advocacy efforts.
The Rehabilitation Hospital of Connecticut is a 60-bed comprehensive medical rehabilitation facility located on the Mount Sinai Campus of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. It offers major inpatient and outpatient programs in traumatic brain injury, stroke/neurological rehabilitation, sports medicine and general rehabilitation, including spinal cord injury and orthopedics.
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
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