Project Walk® Institute for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery The Educational and Certifying Agency for Project Walk®

The Project Walk® Institute of Spinal Cord Injury Recovery is a program dedicated to exploring, expanding, improving, and setting the standard for the field of spinal cord injury recovery. Students participating in the institute are educated about the latest SCI research and The Dardzinski Method™ of spinal cord injury recovery, a method developed and practiced only at Project Walk®.

In the past, SCI recovery or, rather, the little that was expected of it, was based on the principles of occupational medicine. Persons with SCI were taught to cope and live with their injuries. Today, recovery is an option for those wishing to obtain it. Yet, those that choose recovery do not have many choices available to them due to the lack of qualified, trained professionals. There are approximately 11,000 injuries each year in the United States* and currently the only certified SCI recovery professionals available to work with those injuries are found at Project Walk®. The Project Walk® Institute of Spinal Cord Injury Recovery is changing that through its multiple educational programs designed to train new Project Walk® centers and tailored to the specific needs of spinal cord injured clients all over the world.

Project Walk® is the only facility in the world where exercise/fitness professionals can study The Dardzinski Method™ of spinal cord injury recovery under the close supervision of Project Walk® certified SCI Recovery Specialists. Certified SCI Recovery Specialists (CSRS) are experts in The Dardzinski Method™ and the field of SCI recovery with years of experience and thousands of logged training hours. Project Walk® Certified SCI Recovery Specialists (CSRS) are innovators of SCI recovery who, collectively, have worked with, and researched, hundreds of clients from all over the world to produce consistent, groundbreaking results. Simply put: they are the best in the world at what they do.

*From the Fact Sheet published by the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC) supported by grant number H133A011201 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C. The opinions contained in this publication are those of the grantee and do not necessarily reflect those of the granting agency. ©2003 Board of Trustees. University of Alabama. The National SCI Statistical Center 619 19th St South, SRC 515, Birmingham, AL 35249-7330 Voice:(205) 934-3320; TDD:(205) 934-4642; FAX: (205) 934-2709.
For additional information Email: NSCISC@uab.edu