Ballroom dancing in a wheelchair feels like ‘floating through the clouds,’ Ken Faber says. ‘Nothing else compares.’
Every Wednesday, wheelchair user Randy McNeil heads down to the Victoria Ballet Academy in Vaughan for ballroom dancing lessons.
The former industrial mechanic smiles as he is spun and twirled around the dance floor in his chair.
“It’s freedom. Complete freedom,” he says.
“It’s like the chair doesn’t exist, it’s gone and it’s just my partner and I floating around the dance floor and away we go.”
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Rehana is a 2012 graduate of the Masters of Physical Therapy program at the University of Toronto. Prior to that, Rehana completed an Honours Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology degree at McMaster Universityin 2009. During her career, Rehana has taken a keen interest in being involved with both the neurological and orthopaedic population. Her clinical placement experience ranges within the continuum of care including: inpatient spinal cord rehabilitation, outpatient sports injuries rehabilitation, acute care in the intensive care unit, inpatient paedeatric neurological rehabilitation, community integration in a nursery school, and inpatient geriatric rehabilitation.
via Neurocore Physiotherapy & Pilates – Rehana Meru.
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