Life After Paralyzation
I chose this Ted Talk because I actually met Janne Kouri recently when volunteering at his Ride for Paralysis event. He and his team were riding bicycles from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. to raise funds and awareness of the need for better rehabilitation centers for those living with spinal cord injury. In his Ted Talk, he tells more about his personal story and his realization of the hole in our healthcare system regarding patients with spinal cord injury. His doctors told him he had no hope for recovery and that he should just "get used to playing board games the rest of his life." That line was absolutely chilling and infuriating for me to hear. Our job as healthcare professionals is not to take away all hope nor to give false hope. While we can present evidence to our client, every case is different so there is truly no way to know the outcome for that individual. Luckily, Kouri did not listen to this doctor and searched for rehabilitation facilities that could pro