Patient Stories
Be Inspired
Our patients who've experieced life-changing injury, illness or trauma share their stories.
Active Living program
Amputee rehabilitation
- Adventurous traveller regains zest for life
- Black ice takes car crash survivor's leg, but not her drive to walk
- Meet Andrea, high school cheerleader and gymnast
- Nicki's path-to-recovery after a serious motorcycle accident
- Wounded sergeant soldiers on after losing leg in Afghanistan
Burn rehabilitation
- Factory worker reclaims hand, and life
- Burn survivor turns adversity into opportunity
- Meet Tes, auto mechanic and burn survivor
Cardiac rehabilitation
Electrical injury rehabilitation
- Recovering from a shock to the system
- Rene's victory: getting a charge out of life
- Meet Ken: lead hand maintenance at a long-term care facility and electrical injury survivor
Musculoskeletal (orthopaedic) rehabilitation
- Getting back into the groove after total knee replacement
- Meet Sebastiano: new knee & Wii
- Meet Shirley: walking towards better testing
Oncology (Cancer) rehabilitation
- Francesca’s victory: regaining her freedom and Brain tumour survivor returns to life and the things that matter most
- Meet Trudy, retired office manager and colon cancer survivor
Organ transplant rehabilitation
Short Term Active Reconditioning (STAR) rehabilitation
Stroke & neurological rehabilitation
- Can stroke survivors write their own stories?
- Survivor finds his stroke again
- Mary Jane’s victory: a marathon recovery and Marathon runner learns to walk again
- Meet Bill, computer consultant and spinal surgery survivor
- Meet Ray, facilities manager and stroke survivor
