Amen dude./ I'm always amazed at what one can fix with duct tape and
an old legbag strap.
Dave
In a message dated 7/6/2006 4:16:04 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sometimes in life a few spines must be broken. Your patient
broke his spine and so to must his books make the spinal sacrifice. It's
a paperback not a priceless work of literature. Some have gone so far as
to cut the spine completely off, punch holes in the pages, put in 3 ring
binder. The one thing I've learned since my injury is that necessity and
functionality run the show.
Eric
Kelvin Smith
wrote:
Hello all on the chat list.
I was hoping someone might have some advice/tips/contacts with regard
to assistive devices for reading books for those folk with high level
quadriplegic spinal cord injury or similar. There is a chap at the rehab'
unit to which I'm attached who loves to read paperback novels and was
after something to allow him to read independently (given his relatively
average hand function at the moment). He's working away at his abilities
with his hands and has also downloaded a number of books as well.
He has tried a reading stand that has meant breaking the spine of
the novel for it to be functional, and even then it's been prone to flick
over 6 pages at once so it's not been an entire success. He'd rather avoid
breaking the spine of a book for one thing and so was curious to know if
anyone had any suggestions? You may know of things commercially available or
just plain clever tricks that people have developed to tackle this kind of
challenge - I'm sure he's not the only person who's had to tackle this
one.
So, any help you can provide would be much appreciated. Photos are
always welcome too if they're handy.
Thanks in advance, bye for now.
Kel Smith.
Recreation Therapist
Moorong Spinal Unit
Royal Rehabilitation Centre
Sydney.
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