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Functional New Artificial Limbs Lead to Active Lifestyles
Carol Anderson is careful to spell out w-a-l-k when she’s around her Rat Terrier, Brussels Griffon and two Chihuahuas. She doesn’t want to get their hopes up yet. But the day is near when she’ll once again take Lucy, Sadie, Emma and Annie on a romp around her Raymond neighborhood.
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Now I can...stay connected
As a quadriplegic, Tony Watts can’t use his hands to control a computer mouse. Yet the 26-year-old still spends plenty of time online with his Facebook and MySpace pals.
It’s a pastime made possible by the experts at Methodist Rehab’s Adaptive Computing Lab. After assessing Watts’ abilities, they recommended a system that lets him navigate the Internet by simply sipping and puffing on a special straw attached to an input device.
“Now I can do just about anything on a computer,” says the resident of Methodist Specialty Care Center, a Flowood facility that meets the health and lifestyle needs of younger people with severe disabilities. “I can e-mail my friends and family and just surf the Web.”
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