Bloomingdale, NJ -- Project Walk Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Recovery is happy to announce that Push to Walk is the first facility in the United States to become a Project Walk certified facility.  Push to Walk is now working together with Project Walk to provide its exercise-based recovery program to the SCI community of Northern New Jersey. Each Push to Walk staff member will train at the Project Walk center in Carlsbad and will continue to be trained until they complete their Level I certification in The Dardzinski Method™ at which time they will maintain their certification with continuing education courses.

The atmosphere and equipment at Push to Walk will be very similar to Project Walk.   The staff is led by Lindsay Huisman, a Project Walk Level I certified Trainer.  Lindsay worked at Project Walk’s center in Carlsbad for two years training with all levels of injury and function.  This experience has given her the knowledge and skill to lead the facility and provide the SCI community with best exercise-based recovery program on the east coast.  Eric Prol who is in the process of completing his Level I certification, will join Lindsay on the roster of trainers in the Push to Walk center, and as client demand increases, all new Push to Walk trainers will travel to Carlsbad to begin Level I training.

Everyone at Project Walk is very excited to be embarking on this new certified facility endeavor. Its goal is to help Push to Walk service the local SCI community that is constantly looking for recovery options other than the standard compensation therapy.

For more information on Push to Walk, please visit www.pushtowalknj.org.  If you would like more information on the certified facility program or education programs available to SCI professionals through Project Walk.

As its name suggests, Project Walk Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Center is a not-for-profit organization, whose core mission is to provide an improved quality of life for people with spinal cord injuries through intense exercise-based recovery programs, education, support and encouragement.  They do this by offering their clients the most specialized, comprehensive exercise-based recovery program available.  In the pursuit of its mission, Project Walk has been encouraging its clients and providing opportunities for different levels of recovery for eight years.  The program’s success is based on highly skilled specialists who go through a several year, hands-on certification process, learning how a dysfunctional nervous system recovers. There are currently people at Project Walk improving in a number of skills and functions and many others are learning to take steps.  Most impressively, the majority of the participants are recovering in the same pattern as those that have come into the program before them.  To help spinal cord injury victims achieve what is considered medically impossible and walk after being injured and confined to a wheelchair, please consider making a donation to Project Walk.  For more information on the programs at Project Walk please call (760) 431-9789 or visit www.ProjectWalk.org. 

For more information on Push to Walk please visit: www.pushtowalknj.org