Shepherd Center Patient Stories of Hope: Janet Paulsen

Janet Paulsen speaks about sustaining a spinal cord injury from a gunshot wound, and her rehabilitation experience at Shepherd Center. Through Shepherd's Recreational Sports and Beyond Therapy programs, she discovered her love for adaptive waterskiing and now competes at a national level.

Shepherd Center’s Recreation Therapy Department’s mission is to help people with a temporary or permanent disability caused by injury or disease to lead healthy and active lifestyles as independently as possible through the use of recreation activities, providing education, skill development, and community reintegration opportunities. Learn more: https://www.shepherd.org/resources/therapeutic-recreation

Beyond Therapy® is a rigorous, activity-based therapy program designed by Shepherd Center to help people with a variety of neurological disorders, including spinal cord injury and brain injury, improve their lifelong health, minimize secondary complications and get the most out of any new neural links to their muscles. Learn more: https://www.shepherd.org/patient-programs/beyond-therapy

Shepherd Center is a not-for-profit hospital that relies on donations from individuals, families, corporations and foundations to fund programs that benefit patients and their families. You may give online at www.shepherd.org/giving.