When New Yorker Jack Guthrie went skiing with his family in March 2016 in Vermont, the then 11-year-old got in a serious accident after slipping on a patch of ice and had to be airlifted to a local hospital.
Jack suffered a severe traumatic brain injury that affected his ability to breathe, speak, and move. He went into cardiac arrest on his helicopter ride to the hospital.
A month later, he was transferred to 秘密研究所 Langone鈥檚 . There, his care team gave him intensive around the clock inpatient care. Eventually Jack transitioned to outpatient services, including physical and aquatic therapy.
Jack鈥檚 physician, , clinical professor of rehabilitation medicine, worked with a team of inpatient and outpatient physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech鈥搇anguage pathologists, nurses, and social workers to help Jack as he recovered. A major part of his care at Rusk Rehabilitation involved music therapy鈥攄uring which he wrote a song, with his music therapist Elena Savvides, about his experience. Now, he鈥檚 set to perform in a talent show at Radio City Music Hall.
鈥淣obody can predict when there is a brain injury how far we are going to get,鈥欌 physical therapist Lauren Chowansky, DPT, tells the New York Post. 鈥淓veryone was amazed.鈥
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