The Gaylord Specialty Healthcare Podcast features patients, families, and medical professionals dealing with serious illnesses or injuries and is meant to inspire, bring hope and insight, and a message of belief that life after a traumatic illness or injury is POSSIBLE!
Mike Kyrsiuk: Running with the Wrong Crowd Nearly Killed Me
In this episode of the Gaylord Think Possible podcast, Megan Palmer, OT, and Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program coordinator, interviews Mike Kyrsuik. Mike talks about nearly life-ending injuries from a car accident when he was a 17-year-old varsity baseball pitcher ready to graduate from high school in 1974. Mike had always been a responsible student until earlier that year when he started hanging with what he described as “the big crowd,” a group of popular jocks who often cut classes ...
21 Nov 2022
Officer David Petersen: Teens and Impaired Driving
Officer Dave Petersen, a police officer with the New Milford, Connecticut, Police Department for the past 12 years, has witnessed the results of traumatic accidents where every second matters in saving lives. He is on the crash scene reconstruction team and is a drug-recognition expert who shares some of the technical and intuitive skills used in detecting how an accident occurred or if a person has used drugs. With a family of his own, he shares impactful life lessons and discusses how...
2 Nov 2022
Meagan Ricci: Tenacity and Faith after a Spinal Cord Injury
Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program is part of the National ThinkFirst Association, which is committed to educating youth about the devastating and life-altering consequences of poor decisions that can lead to a serious brain or spinal cord injury. In this episode of the Gaylord Specialty Healthcare "Think Possible" podcast, 32-year-old Meagan Ricci, shares her journey of being paralyzed from the waist down. Just 18 months ago, Meagan was in a car accident that resulted in a T6 incomplete spi...
7 Jun 2022
Amy Beckwith: How my daughter's accident and traumatic brain injury changed our lives
Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program is part of the National ThinkFirst Association, which is committed to educating youth about the devastating and life-altering consequences of poor decisions that can lead to a serious brain or spinal cord injury. In this episode, Megan Palmer, OT, and Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program coordinator, interviews Amy Beckwith. Amy's 19-year-old daughter was in a drunk driving accident eight years ago that resulted in a diffuse axonal brain injury a type of traumatic ...
10 Apr 2022
Matt Solomon: Making Hard Choices after Multiple Sports-Related Concussions
Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program is part of the National ThinkFirst Association, which is committed to educating youth about the devastating and life-altering consequences of poor decisions that can lead to a serious brain or spinal cord injury. In this episode, Megan Palmer, OT and Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program coordinator, interviews Matthew Solomon a high school student who had to make some hard choices after receiving several concussions while playing football. Matt talks about the factors a...
10 Apr 2022
Dr. Alyse Sicklick: 30 Years of Caring for Patients with Brain Injury at Gaylord
Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program is part of the National ThinkFirst Association, which is committed to educating youth about the devastating and life-altering consequences of poor decisions that can lead to a serious brain or spinal cord injury. Dr. Alyse Sicklick, Gaylord's Medical Director of Inpatient Rehabilitation and a physiatrist, speaks about her almost 30-year career at Gaylord, how the fields of medicine and rehabilitation have grown during her tenure, and how patients wit...
10 Apr 2022
Ryan Tapp: Life after a Traumatic Brain Injury
Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program is part of the National ThinkFirst Association, which is committed to educating youth about the devastating and life-altering consequences of poor decisions that can lead to a serious brain or spinal cord injury. In this first episode, Megan Palmer, OT and Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program coordinator, interviews Ryan Tapp, a former patient, who was in a serious car accident that wounded three other drivers and left him with a serious traumatic brain injury. Ryan sha...
10 Apr 2022
Caitlin Boland: A Physical Therapist's Experience Treating Patients with a Brain or Spinal Cord Injury
Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program is part of the National ThinkFirst Association, which is committed to educating youth about the devastating and life-altering consequences of poor decisions that can lead to a serious brain or spinal cord injury. In this episode, Megan Palmer, OT and Gaylord's ThinkFirst Program coordinator, interviews Caitlin Boland, PT, DPT, about her role as a physical therapist at Gaylord and how she made her career choice. Treating patients with these conditions can be very...
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