Our Staff

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With backgrounds in exercise physiology, kinesiology and sports performance training, our staff comes from around the world to work at Project Walk®, just like our clients. They are attracted to the professional challenge of learning a unique and innovative method. Training someone with a dysfunctional nervous system caused by a spinal cord injury is incredibly rewarding. Watching a client complete a movement they were previously unable to do produces feelings that are hard to top! In 2003, we developed a training curriculum based on scientific findings of what happens to a person after a spinal cord injury  After years of observing and learning how some can recover, we developed a certification program to ensure the highest level of training to our clients. In 2006, we formed a scientific advisory committee. A task of this committee is to review further development of our curriculum and certification program. 

 

This will ensure our increased knowledge and understanding of this injury and keep Project Walk® current with the latest surgical and medical research being conducted in the field of spinal cord injury. Our goal is to never stop learning and to continually try to improve our program so we can continue to provide the best recovery training in the world.

 

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Portland, Oregon Facility - Northwest Regional Center

9923 SW Arctic Drive Beaverton, OR 97005
Phone: (503) 352-0177

 

Client Spotlight

It seems almost unfathomable that a split second could change the course of one’s life completely....

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Clients like Kip Johnson are the reason Project Walk is raising money to MOVE into a new center in Portland.  Kip was one of our first clients from Portland who initially traveled to San Diego to take part in our program.  As a result of his determination we opened our first regional center and with that, the direction of the organization changed permanently. Instead of clients relocating or traveling to one large center we learned that for our clients to be successful the center must be local.

In 2008 we started opening centers around the country, but for now the clients in the Portland Center need your help.  In a little over 18 months the current Center out grew the small space we were renting.  As of today, the center is close to capacity and we are in great need of additional equipment needed to treat our current clients. Kip and others like him need the community to help move the Portland Center into a 7,000sq ft state of the art exercise base recovery center that will have the proper equipment and staffing to get the job done - recovery.

If you would like to make a donation specific to this center, please contact Tiffany Drouillard, at tiffanyd@projectwalk.org or (760) 431-9789.  Or make a donation online by clicking here and selecting “Portland” as the “Fund” in the “Gift Information” section of our online giving page!
To the left is Kip Johnson practicing standing, next to him is the thermometer to reach our goal.  The money raised for this center will stay in the community providing services that are not currently available to those that need it.

 

Additional Modalities

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