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Nebraska women find support in friendship during rehabilitation

LINCOLN, Neb. (MADONNA)–It’s said that friendship makes the world go around. It can also have positive effects when it comes to healing. For two Nebraska women whose separate lives were interrupted by serious illnesses, an instant bond helped them see the path to recovery. Lisa and Debbie don’t always race their wheelchairs as they travel the…
Retired Children’s foundation director fortunate for Madonna after spinal cord injury

OMAHA, Neb. (MADONNA)–With every step Roger Lewis takes back his life after suffering a spinal cord injury in November 2016. “This is the hardest fight of my life. I think what you have to have is a reality of what a spinal injury is like and what recovery is like,” said Roger. For Roger, part…
Stroke Survivor: A new life role through rehabilitation

Pictured above: Rob Meador, a stroke survivor from Lincoln, Nebraska, and 2017 Lincoln Campus GOAL Award recipient, uses the Lokomat, a robotic gait trainer, to retrain his body to walk again. Stroke Survivor. Two powerful words that label many of the patients at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, someone…
Alaska man chooses Madonna for brain injury treatment

Jeff Fowler is back home with his family in Alaska today after suffering a traumatic brain injury while on the job. An installer of fiber optic cable, the father of nine children was involved in a one-vehicle accident on a road he traveled many times. Jeff, together with his wife, Trista, traveled nearly 3,400 miles for rehabilitation in…
Jeromie Meyer is a Maverick now, but could be a Paralympian with Team USA basketball next (Omaha World Herald)

The Omaha World Herald profiles former Madonna patients Jeromie Meyer and his efforts to one day play wheelchair basketball in the Paralympics.
Kansas teen tackles brain injury head on

Devin Busick loves playing football. “I was a linebacker (and you liked to) tackle people (laughs) if they were in the way,” said Devin. On this February day, it’s the sunshine that may be the only obstacle Devin’s tackling. Playing catch with mom who says he could barely lift his head up a few weeks…
Engineers modify toy electric car to get Kansas toddler mobile

LINCOLN, Neb. (MADONNA)–Carter Brown may be just 16 months old, but he’s got a license to drive thanks to the work of engineers with Madonna’s Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering. Chase Pfeifer, Ph.D., assistant research director for the Institute’s Rehabilitation Engineering Center of Excellence, Heidi Kratzer, a n electrical engineering student at the University…
Chrisman senior has no memory of crash that nearly killed her (Lake News Online)

In a report by Lake News Online, former patient Shelley Cunningham, from Independence, Missouri, describes recovering from a car crash at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital-Lincoln Campus.
New all-terrain wheelchair will put paralyzed hunter back outdoors (Omaha World Herald)

The Omaha World Herald features Tyler Nichols, a former patient who spent time at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital-Lincoln Campus recovering from a spinal cord injury.
Rodney Guthmiller – 2016 GOAL Award

Rodney Guthmiller is grateful to be back on his feet after a work-related accident resulted in a traumatic brain injury. An over-the-road truck driver, the South Dakotan’s life took an unexpected turn on January 13, 2016. Twelve-hundred miles from home, Rodney fell five feet while preparing to unload his trailer—the back of his head taking…