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Congratulations to John McDaniel, PhD who has received a Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Creating Opportunity & Independence Project Grant titled Disseminating Overground FES Cycling into the Community. Recently, APT Center Investigators at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center designed a bike system specifically for persons with spinal cord injuries. The system delivers coordinated electrical pulses to individual muscles in the legs allowing individuals with lower limb paralysis to pedal the bike. Not only has the system provided a means for lower body exercise for individuals within the program, but has also allowed them to ride outdoors in their neighborhoods and parks.
The goal of this 1-year, $100K project is to expand the Cleveland VA's current outdoor overground cycling program for individuals with spinal cord injury to three locations: Kent State University, Buckeye Wellness Center, and Craig Hospital. Specifically, this program will allow equipment to be purchased, assembled, and delivered to the three locations. Exercise prescriptions will be provided to clients at those locations to ensure they are receiving the appropriate exercise training to develop the required muscle strength and endurance to transition to outdoor cycling.
Successful implementation of this program at these three initial sites will provide the blueprints for immediate successful implementation of this program in the future at almost any public/private institution or for individual use at home.
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