Island Neuro Rehab

12/08/2022

This client has really improved his ability to walk after 4 weeks of PT. More coordinated and narrower base of suport.

03/05/2021

Island Neuro Rehab was featured on a local TV show, Hawaii Sports People with Howard Dashefsky. We are really proud of this interview and hope it allows us to help more people with neurologic injuries!

Broadcast on OC16 Channel Hawai'i, 7pm HST February 27th, 2021

Also shown Spectrum Sports OC16.tv On Demand here:

Lesson Link: oc16.tv/watch/video/QVtnZv_KdM_6

08/31/2020

Helping clients improve their walking during Covid times

07/17/2020

This might be the last word on discussion about wether to wear a mask or not. Our practice has been 100% compliant with masks since the start of this epidemic. We require our clients and staff to wear a mask. Temperatures are taken of anyone who enters and we limit our clinic to 50% of capacity. The spread of this disease is controllable.

07/15/2020

Yet another article showing that masks DO work. But, they need to be worn by those that are infected. There is a growing evidence that we can contain this thing if everyone in groups would wear a mask. It is why places like bars or restaurants are more dangerous without strict distancing. It is also why situations where everyone can (and do) wear masks are less risky.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/07/14/news/2-stylists-had-coronavirus-but-wore-masks-139-clients-didnt-fall-sick/?fbclid=IwAR0vadczl5klJWC_c6-g__6cVtpYnNlQLCB2JabK5rYznOvxZyYaT02Ryq0

04/28/2020

Following the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV), another highly pathogenic coronavirus named SARS‐CoV‐2 (previously ...

04/28/2020

Covid-19 can lead to strokes - even in the young.

Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead by strokes. Some didn’t even know they were infected by coronavirus.

03/24/2020

Open for business. Both clinics are open and seeing clients. We are using a number of precautions and procedures to protect everyone

11/06/2019

New ideas for our balance program

10/01/2019

I had a very unusual and sad session with a client today. (no, not the one in this photo) This made me realize how important what we do is - and the potential effect our work has on others, so I wanted to share it with you. This client was in her 60’s. She was a Psychiatrist by trade but developed a condition where her Cerebellum shrank in size and function. No one knows why. They started seeing us almost a year ago, to the day. They had heard about us from a local neurologist and had already been to three other PTs on the island plus several rehabilitation centers on the mainland including University of Chicago and the Harvard Neurology center. She had lost the ability to walk due to her extreme dyskinesia and was wheelchair bound. She had tried therapy at all these other places but had zero progress.

Within three weeks, I had her walking. Within three months, she could almost walk by herself using a platform walker. On video, her progress was unbelievable. Her husband, daughter and caregiver all told me repeatedly that they could not believe her progress and were amazed that I did more for her than everyone else combined. But in her mind, she was never going to recover fully.

Her husband called me last week to say that today would be their last session. He explained that they would be flying to Switzerland tomorrow to end her life. Assisted su***de, which is legal in Switzerland. He asked that I see her one final time, at her request. I was devastated. I just got done seeing her and I am even more sad at the loss of her life. But, her husband told me one thing that makes me realize that I did help her, despite the ending: he said that she had fully intended to end her life a year ago. That her husband begged her to try something else, which is why they came to me. He said that her initial progress changed her entire world. He said that I “gave him an extra year” with his wife.

05/25/2019

The things we do....