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Project Walk is an extensive physical therapy program for people with spinal cord injuries who have a goal of full recovery. There is no other facility like it that gets the results of walking.¹

The Walk On intensive exercise recovery program, offers a path to maximising functional recovery through a structured program based upon the Project Walk www.projectwalk.org methodology, which has been offered in the United States since 1999. In Project Walk?s experience, the earlier an intensive recovery strategy is commenced after injury, the greater the opportunity for advancing recovery.²

The reason: Extreme Makeover is more than tripling the size of the 900-square-foot house where a Los Angeles police officer lives, and they will be putting in the same equipment?he used at Project Walk after she was shot and paralyzed. The program will air early in December.)?³

The purpose of this scholarship is to provide funds for people with spinal cord injuries to attend the five-day Trial Week at Project Walk in Beaverton, OR. The funds are provided from the settlement received by Janos Tivadar, who suffered a spinal cord injury in 2003, as his way of thanking the people of Oregon for their help.⁴

It is designed to maintain the nervous system, and through repetitions, improve it. While this is not the same as being at Project Walk working one-on-one with a certified specialist, it does allow you to perform the repetitions necessary to improve.⁵

In the last three years, clients participating in Project Walk have experienced recovery beyond that predicted during their initial rehabilitation. Now, in collaboration with the medical and scientific communities, the data to be acquired over the next 15 months will help to support the importance of Project Walk’s methods for enhancing recovery following traumatic spinal cord injury.⁶