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Jenny Smith Rolls On
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After a life-altering spinal cord injury, I proved that a wheelchair could take me places others never would have dared imagine. I was injured in 1989 while tumbling at the age of 16. I sustained a C6-7 spinal cord injury which left me paralyzed from the chest down. I work with an international non-profit organization to ensure our workers stay healthy emotionally, physically, and spiritually while working cross-culturally. I am also a contributing writer at Bard Care.
Loss after Disability: The Loss of My Identity
Loss after disability. It’s not all about physical function. I lost my identity.This clip is from my 2-hour presentation at Bellarmine University’s physical therapy department. If I sound winded, it’s because I was still recovering from bronchitis.
#disability #spinalcordinjury #griefandloss #physicaltherapy #physicaltherapystudent #speaker #disabilitysupport #identity #intangibleloss #lossofidentity #gymnast #cheerleader #spinalcordinjurysupport #grief #loss #thejourney #emotionalhealth #transition #disability #lifeafterdisability #chronicillness #chronicpain #emotionalhealth
#disability #spinalcordinjury #griefandloss #physicaltherapy #physicaltherapystudent #speaker #disabilitysupport #identity #intangibleloss #lossofidentity #gymnast #cheerleader #spinalcordinjurysupport #grief #loss #thejourney #emotionalhealth #transition #disability #lifeafterdisability #chronicillness #chronicpain #emotionalhealth
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The Journey Conference: Honduras 2024
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The first international Journey Conference took place in Gracias, Honduras, with the support of FDH Honduras. The Journey: Discovering Emotional and Spiritual Health after Disability gives people the tools to cope with the emotional impact of disability. Read more about the online groups for The Journey here: jennysmithrollson.com/the-journey/ Read more about FDH Honduras and La Casa de Ruben: ...
How I Cath on an Airplane with a Mitrofanoff
Просмотров 7917 месяцев назад
On flights, wheelchair users may not have access (or the physical ability) to use the onboard bathrooms. This video shows how I catheterize as a quadriplegic while I'm on an airplane. I have Mitrofanoff which makes the process doable.
Quad Washes Her Hair from Her Wheelchair
Просмотров 6709 месяцев назад
When my PCA cancels, I still need my hair washed. Places to go, people to see! This new faucet and the tilt feature on my power chair lets me wash my hair in a pinch. (No shower, but I can live without that.) #lifehacks #sci #spinalcordinjury #quadriplegic #paraplegic #tetraplegic #paralysis #wheelchairlife #quadlife #para #quad #tetra #rollmodel #wheelchairgirl #disability #keeponrolling #inde...
A Quadriplegic on a Escalator at one of Rome's Inaccessible Metro Stations
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Errrr. The Barberini Metro station in Rome wasn’t accessible. So my friends carried me down two flights of steps. Then after a RUclips video refresher on how to go down an escalator 😂 we did it! Read more about my trip at jennysmithrollson.com/wheelchair-accessible-tours-and-misadventures-in-rome-italy/ #spinalcordinjury #quadriplegic #paraplegic #tetraplegic #paralysis #para #quad #tetra #whee...
Erg or Rowing Machine Workout for Spinal Cord Injuries
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An erg (or ergometer or rowing machine) is a great way to get a cardio workout as a paraplegic or quadriplegic. #pararowing #spinalcordinjury #cardioworkout
Two PR1 ParaRowers on the Ohio River
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Why do I get up early on Saturdays to row on the Ohio River? This view will should you why. ParaRowing is for people with disabilities. There are three classifications within FISA, or the World Rowing Federation. Sydney and I are both PR1 para-rowers. I have a C6-7 complete spinal cord injury, and Sydney has a T11 injury. This was Sydney's second time in a single.
How A Wheelchair User Gets Off An Airplane
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Ever wonder how someone who users a wheelchair gets on and off an airplane? This video demonstrates how I get off a plane. Travel is possible, it just takes a bit more time and effort. (I have a C6-7 spinal cord injury.)
How a Quad Uses Tweezers | What You Want to Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.3 года назад
Just because I have a spinal cord injury doesn’t mean I don’t like to dress nicely, put on makeup, or look good. Watch this video on how, as a C6-7 ASIA A quadriplegic, I figured out how I can tweeze my eyebrows. #spinalcordinjury #SCI #quadriplegic
What is a Pressure Sore? | What You Want to Know about Spinal Cord Injuries
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 года назад
When someone has a spinal cord injury, they are at a higher risk of getting a pressure sore, or decubitus ulcer. But what is a pressure sore, how does one develop, and how can you prevent them? The video discusses the basics of what you want to know about pressure sores and SCI. Don't miss a new video or blog! Subscribe to my mailing list: mailchi.mp/bfb0d1570b25/email-sign-up Website: www.Jenn...
Middle Eastern Chili | Quadly Cooking
Просмотров 6493 года назад
Cooking doesn't have to be time-consuming and exhausting if you have a disability - or just have a busy, hectic life. This video of me cooking a recipe for Middle Eastern Chili. It's proof that even on the toughest of days, cooking can have a happy ending. I share some tips and tricks for cooking healthy meals with limited mobility, energy, or time. Get your free copy of Quadly Cooking: Healthy...
Respiration and Coughing with a Spinal Cord Injury
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.3 года назад
Breathing and respiration are impaired for people with higher level spinal cord injuries. Why? Dr. Lesch from Bellarmine University explains how the intercostal muscles and diaphragm impact the ability to cough and breathe in SCI. Jenny (C6-7) and Paul (T4) demonstrate the impact of a spinal cord injury on coughing and breathing. Website: www.JennySmithRollsOn.com Instagram: jenny...
How Does a Quadriplegic Put in Contact Lenses?
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.3 года назад
Vanity. It'll make you do the impossible. After a friend who is a quadriplegic showed me how she put her contacts in, I gave it a try. And it worked! Sometimes I've needed a nudge after my spinal cord injury to show me what I am capable of doing. Website: www.JennySmithRollsOn.com Instagram: jenny.smith.rolls.on Facebook: JennySmithRollsOn/ #quadriplegic #contactlens...
What is Autonomic Dysreflexia and Dysfunction? | What You Want To Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
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What is Autonomic Dysreflexia and Dysfunction? | What You Want To Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
Bladder and Bowel Care After SCI | What You Want to Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
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Bladder and Bowel Care After SCI | What You Want to Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
How I Colored My Eyebrows with Just for Men
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How I Colored My Eyebrows with Just for Men
How a Quadriplegic Gets Dressed | What You Want to Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
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How a Quadriplegic Gets Dressed | What You Want to Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
The Basics | What You Want To Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
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The Basics | What You Want To Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
ParaRowing with C6-7 Quadriplegic on the Ohio River
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ParaRowing with C6-7 Quadriplegic on the Ohio River
How to Do an At-Home Wheelchair Workout (Don't miss the end!)
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How to Do an At-Home Wheelchair Workout (Don't miss the end!)
Quadly Cooking with Abby | One-Pot Pasta Recipe
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Quadly Cooking with Abby | One-Pot Pasta Recipe
Accessible Cruise on the Mary M. Miller
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Accessible Cruise on the Mary M. Miller
What could ever go wrong when a quad is in the kitchen?
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What could ever go wrong when a quad is in the kitchen?
Live the Impossible - Speaker Demo for Jenny Smith
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Live the Impossible - Speaker Demo for Jenny Smith
Quadly Cooking: Beef Stew in a Crock-Pot Express
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Quadly Cooking: Beef Stew in a Crock-Pot Express
Quadriplegic Shows Physical Therapy Students How She Does Basic Skills
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Quadriplegic Shows Physical Therapy Students How She Does Basic Skills
From one quad to another, what kind of gloves are those ?
@@juliegunnerson5728 ActiveHands. They are wonderful. They’re not cheap, but will last for years and years.
I have a question about the video. Are you wearing something to protect your butt like a diaper? I used a transfer board two years ago to practice transfer, and I got hurt my butt, so I haven't tried it since then because I'm afraid to use the transfer board.
@@culee7321 No, but I place the board under my thighs rather than my bony bottom. Some people transfer with their bottom on the board, whereas I prefer the board under my thighs. Each person is different, though. I have discovered that wearing pants is the best. Wearing shorts just doesn’t work for me when I use a sliding board.
She's helping our people learn about the real life things we struggle with every day. Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you for posting this.
This gave me some ideas that I might can put contacts in again. My left arm and hand are worse than yours and I can't turn my head to left from a screw in my neck. Congratulations you do it so well and quick.
@@kennyjohnson8479 Practice makes perfect! It took me longer when I first started doing it, so don’t get discouraged.
@@JennySmithRollsOn Thanks for the support.
I did it !! lol It's crazy how all these years I thought with 1 hand. And my 1 good hand is less function than yours, but I figured putting both eye contacts in less than 15 mins. Thanks for the advice and encouragement. This really helps because I am going to start driving again soon and allows me to get contacts and not worry my glasses slip while driving. And just so much more giving me the boost of accomplishment. Thank you so much.
Prayers and Blessings 🙏❣️🌹
Awesome!!! 99% people don’t do anything adventurous, so here’s to you being the 1%. Cheers!
Awesome!!! 99% people don’t do anything adventurous, so here’s to you being the 1%. Cheers!
Or better question what is the clearance from floor to bottom of your bed meaning from the floor to the top of the mattress?
The mattress sits right between 23” and 24”.
If you don’t mind me asking, what is the height difference between your bed and your wheelchair?
This is the best use of taxpayer money I have seen in years.
I feel always cold from october to june . Even if when my bladder or bowel are empty. What should l do exactly l am confused !
WoW... Abby is an incredibly pretty woman
Wow, helped me understand a lot, such an impact! Thank you from a nursing student!
Jenny, what a blessing you are to others. Thanking God for your witness!
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Thank you for your content
00:35 Are you wearing stockings?
haven't seen you for a long time
Thank you so much for sharing this video!
Inspirational speech!
Would love to see more daily living videos.
Nice instructional video.
I had my BCIR in 2001 for my Crohn’s Disease. I’ve had 3 major surgeries since then due to the scar tissue on my small intestines. I was lucky enough to find a doctor in NYC that was familiar with this procedure. It definitely made a difference in my life as I don’t have to worry about any accidents. I am currently on Stelara which seems to keep my Crohn’s in check. Overall this procedure was well worth it. I wish you the best of luck.
Jenny Smith, this is an excellent video, and you do a wonderful job explaining your journey with BCIR procedure. I’m just starting a bowel routine in spinal cord rehabilitation so this is new to me and looking at the different options. Thank you
Have you come back to Philadelphia for Bayada since the pandemic?
No. But I’m hoping to go to the Charles this fall!
You are the most inspiring person 💫🫶
May I ask, Did you still have triceps? Or you just lock your elbow during transfer? 🥺🥺
I have a good tricep on my left side. On my right, I've had a tendon transfer to work as a (posterior deltoid). While it functions well, it's not as strong as my other side and I typically externally rotate and lock it out.
@@JennySmithRollsOn 🤩🤩 oh thank you so much. I’m PT student 4 year finding the way for my C6 patient to transfer. Your video give me an idea 🌤️ . Love u
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You're an angel. A beautiful woman inside and out. Thank you for sharing your personal story. I always learn a lot from you. I can only hope to meet a woman as you someday.
I'm smiling ear to ear watching you do this. I pray to see my mom moving around like you in this lifetime again. May God continue to bless and guide you. ❤
I would be scared to death. But it looks like you are still smiling.
Wow! I love these hand controls! So convenient and allows full independence. Quads rock!
I know this may be a dumb question, but Is surgery an option.
No, unfortunately, medication and awareness are the only options at this time. For low blood pressure, there's been some research that shows epidural stimulators are helpful.
@@JennySmithRollsOn Yeah, talk about awareness, I've had it for 30 years and my doctors have always thought it was anxiety, I just now learned about the term a month ago and of course it explains the low body temperature and the bizarre headaches and blood pressure spikes.
My husband was injured in 2001 and a doctor just told him about this last week. Why are they not telling people about this? Any function is invaluable
So few people are told. Sadly, fewer doctors are performing the procedure as well.
Can you do a video how you transfer to the bed how you lay down and get back up to get back in your wheelchair?
❤I was blown away at how you managed your crockpot sitting in a wheelchair, well done. It’s not easy being disabled I know but what I 🎉say always try to not let our disabilities limit us.
there are (vertical) elevators in some stations.
wow. Rome! How are you liking the city? 😍with exception of the treacherous metro station, of course. 😅
Overall, Rome was great. In about a week I'll have an article up on my website about it. You can sign up for my mailing list if you don't want to miss it. JennySmithRollsOn.com
You put your front wheels on one step and the back wheels on another and hang on!!!
That was a long way down...how tall was that ceiling?
It was the longest escalator I’ve ever seen! And felt! I’m not sure how tall the ceiling was because I was looking in front of me, focusing on my balance. We were in the depths of Rome that’s for sure.
@@JennySmithRollsOn 🤣..longest I've ever seen too.
Love your joyful savoring of life
Walmart gave out free wrapping paper cutters last year and I realized it was so small and didn't fit any of my rolls. I love how yours is a larger size! I may get me one of those and throw the Walmart special in the garbage!! LOL
I gotta do this!!!!
I have an impossible too. I have a contracture in my right arm it's at like a 60° angle so I can't lock my elbows out. In the hospital I had a trach and I had trouble telling people anything lol they couldn't hear me and the only way I could handle the pain was to press my thumbs to my chin and hold there for hours. So now I have this contracture on both sides the left is only slight because the tricep is stronger but it makes it impossible to transfer the way they teach. So I came up with my own way I turn on my side drive the chair up next to the bed it's a tilt in space I raise the legs and recline the back and roll into my chair I have choreographed a whole process so that I can do everything without any assistance or supervision when I showed my therapist they said oh my God that is so dangerous I said I do it everyday now so I know what you mean by conquering the impossible I do it every time I figure a way to circumvent my limitations thank you for your videos you're teaching me a lot
I'm a c6/7 quad also I have severe neuropathic pain in my hands most of my tricep works on the left and very little on the right I was wondering how you manage grabbing your pants like that in your video about learning to dress yourself I got shot and paralyzed 3 years ago I was in a bad place in my life homeless and addicted to drugs and when I woke up from surgery it felt like I was burning alive so my attitude was not great most of my hospital stay I was hallucinating or in a zombie state from the drugs so I didn't get much therapy I got passed up for impatient for this reason as well I woke up one day in a nursing home with a stage 4 bed sore and realized I needed to take my life in my own hands because it was not going to get any better without some effort for myself I quit the antidepressants cold turkey that day I begged my mom to bring me home which she did and it saved my life I had a bone infection because the wound went that far when it was finally healed I got serious about therapy I started doing things on my own actually I did more at home by myself than I did in therapy I just remembered what they told me I wanted to ask you about that surgery you had to give you grip and a tricep I'm on Medicaid and I have to fight for every little thing I get but I would truly love to get a chance for those things I lift weights now with the help of my mom do you think it's possible I could qualify for this surgery?
I typically hook my thumb through a belt loop and tug. If there’s no belt loop, I put my hand inside the waist of the pants and use wrist extension to pull them up. Make sense?
@@JennySmithRollsOn yes it does thanks for the speedy reply and most especially for your videos you're short and to the point and you pack lots of info in very succinctly this is what we need not someone asking for likes and to hit the subscribe button and not a bunch of shout outs to your followers for this you get my subscription and my likes thanks
I like this Vedio More interesting because am spinal cord injury in a long time since 2005
Very helpful!
Great instructional video.
This instructional video is one of the best I have seen in 40 years of this "wheel" life!
Thank you!