Music, Vital Capacity, and Post-Respirator Patients

Abstract

A PARAPLEGIC herself, Miss Brim knows where-of she speaks. Trained and experienced as a public school music teacher, her career was apparently ended in 1946 when injuries in an automobile accident left her crippled. A series of operations, performed to enable her to walk, proved unsuccessful. Her condition appeared hopeless. And it probably would have been had Miss Brim not been blessed by great determination plus skilled treatment by a physiotherapist at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, who, interested in her case, introduced her to braces, Canadian canes, and a wheel chair. (She has graduated from that means of transportation, now using a specially fitted car like those operated by paraplegic veterans.) And she is employed by the Indianapolis Schools with assignments at the Riley and Rotary Hospitals where she works with children whose age range is from kindergarten through senior high school. Miss Brim, herself, requests that we add a statement about her mother's courageous attitude, “which has been the source of such great help and inspiration to me.”