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Social @ UHN Toronto Rehab patients realize benefits

of adapted sports

In the past year, we had
more than 5,000 retweets The first question Fabio Angelini asked his medical basketball, and bocce ball, in a friendly competition
and replies on Twitter. team when he arrived at Toronto Rehab Lyndhurst between the four spinal cord injury inpatient and

Centre as a spinal cord injury patient in a wheelchair, outpatient units.
5,888 9,536 was whether he would ever play golf again. “What we strive to do is to really promote being active

Retweets and Replies Likes on our tweets They couldn’t promise him anything. in the community,” says Nicole Leong, organizer and
recreation therapist at Lyndhurst. “Not only physically
Thanks to personal determination and the combined active but also engaging socially with peers again.”
efforts of the physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and
University Health Network therapeutic recreation team, Fabio is now standing This was the third Lyndhurst Games since the
@UHN with some assistance, and back playing golf again, too. inaugural event five years ago. After the two

Drs. Trevor Pugh and Suzanne Trudel of the Princess Promoting the benefits of therapeutic recreation previous Games, the centre noticed a much higher
Margaret Cancer Centre have developed a less invasive is the focus of the Lyndhurst Games – an event participation in the recreation and leisure programs.
procedure for diagnosing and monitoring patients with aimed at introducing patients to the possibilities of For patients who might feel apprehensive at first,
Popular multiple myeloma. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2uCGFrZ participating in adapted sports and leisure activities having staff members play alongside can put them
in August with the hope that they incorporate it into their own more at ease.

therapy.
“When the patient participates with a staff member
The Canada 150-themed Games brought together who they know, like one of their therapists or nurses,
more than 200 patients, staff, volunteers, and the patients are so much more willing to try it,” says
family members to try different adapted sports and Nicole.
49 Likes recreational activities such as handcycling, wheelchair
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• Toronto Rehab nurses advance their knowledge to care for complex patients Two-and-a-half months after coming to Lyndhurst Centre, Fabio is now
standing with some assistance and back playing his favourite sport, golf.
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