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Methodist Specialty Care Center honors its top volunteers

Methodist Specialty Care Center in Flowood, Methodist Rehabilitation Center’s long-term care facility for the severely disabled, recently honored its outstanding volunteers.

“Our volunteers do so much to enrich the lives of our residents,” said Robby Scucchi, director of volunteer services at the center. “We are very fortunate to have volunteers like our honorees who day after day, week after week, hour after hour, contribute their time to the facility.”

Patricia Powers of Pearl was named Volunteer of the Year.

Fifth annual Walk & Roll for Research to be held April 5

The Fifth annual Walk & Roll for Research will be held on Saturday, April 5 at 10 a.m. The event benefits the Wilson Research Foundation at Methodist Rehabilitation Center and will be held on the grounds of Methodist Specialty Care Center, One Layfair Drive in Flowood, and the nearby walking trail around Mirror Lake.

“We walk or roll to honor patients who have overcome disabling obstacles and achieved mobility and independence,” said Chris Blount, foundation director.

Rocket science meets rehab as anti-gravity treadmill lightens the load for patients and athletes sidelined by injury

The same rocket-science technology that helps elite athletes get off the disabled list is putting people back on their feet at Methodist Rehabilitation Center Outpatient Services.

The Flowood clinic is the only facility in Mississippi to offer AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill training to the general public. The NASA-inspired system off-loads as much as 80 percent of a person’s weight and is now an FDA-approved device for functional rehab and a training aid for everyday athletes.

Philip Blount has special empathy for patients at Methodist Pain & Spine Center

Dr. Philip Blount has a special empathy for patients seeking relief from painful and disabling injuries.

During his first year at the University of Mississippi Medical School, the Jackson native suffered “major multiple trauma” in a car wreck. He spent six weeks in the hospital and had to take a leave of absence from his studies to fully recover.

After surviving 21-foot deer stand fall, Blake Barber is counting his blessings, urging other hunters to be safe

Ever since he fell 21 feet from a deer stand, Blake Barber of Vicksburg has been wearing “a big Ninja Turtle shell.”

At least that’s what his 2-year-old son, Mason, calls the chest-to-waist brace.

At Methodist Rehabilitation Center in Jackson, the equipment is known as a thoracic lumbar sacral orthosis. It’s the default fashion for patients whose spines have been pieced back together with rods and screws.

Two years after paralyzing school bus crash, Winona teen still pushing hard to walk again

When he ran hurdles for Montgomery High School in Kilmichael, Stevelyn Robinson never took practice jumps at a track meet.

He wanted to see the flabbergasted faces as his 5-foot frame flew over chest-high hurdles and past much taller opponents.

Today, the Winona teen still likes surprising people, but now it’s all about proving what’s possible after a paralyzing spinal cord injury.

Merry Claire Wardlaw of Flowood said she’ll never forget what happened the night she gave Stevelyn tickets to a Germantown High School football game.

You Can't Keep a Good Dawg Down

He goes to class, studies hard, hits the gym, cheers on the Bulldogs on game day and even finds a little time to party in the Cotton District.

Trainor Storey rarely stands still, like most 20-year-old students at Mississippi State University.

But just a year ago, his life was at a standstill.

Victim of brain-damaging crash speaks out about the dangers of distracted driving

“Hey, what are you doing?”

If Robyn Thomas had answered that text, the reply might have been: Fighting for my life.

On May 21, 2012, the Snow Lake teen was found trapped in her silver Ford Fusion, the victim of a brain-damaging crash.

“We believe she looked down at her phone and hit a tree going 60 miles per hour,” said her mother, Kim.

Robyn can’t recall being pried from the wreckage with the Jaws of Life. Or the helicopter whisking her to The Med in Memphis. Or her parents’ despair when they learned their 19-year-old daughter might not survive the night.

After a paralyzing toxin prompts a 15-month hospital stay for Jay Killen, Methodist Rehab helps the Horn Lake resident return home

Jay Killen couldn’t see with his eyelids sewn shut.

He couldn’t talk with a breathing tube down his throat.

And he sure as heck couldn’t move. All his muscles—even those that control blinking—had been put on strike by a strange, head-to-toe paralysis.

So the Horn Lake man could only listen in horror as doctors discussed removing his life support.

“I overheard them tell my wife, Amanda, that they wanted to take me off my feeding tube and ventilator. I thought: Oh my God.”

And Amanda thought: Oh no you won’t give up on my husband.

McMillin joins Wilson Research Foundation board at MRC

The Wilson Research Foundation announced today the appointment of Lyn McMillin of Madison to its board of governors. The foundation supports Methodist Rehabilitation Center in Jackson, helping establish Methodist as a center of excellence through its patient-focused research program.

Ginny Wilson Mounger, chairperson of the board, said, “Lyn is a wonderful leader and community servant. She will be a tremendous asset to our mission to sustain and grow the life-changing research program at Methodist Rehab.”

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