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LEXINGTON HOSPITAL TO UNVEIL STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT
FOR WALKING

Lexington, KY—Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital is announcing the addition of it’s newest piece of innovative equipment, Lokomat.  The Lokomat robotic system is used world-wide to improve mobility in individuals with Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Parkinson’s and/or other Neurological Impairments.  Cardinal Hill is the only facility in the state to offer this treatment to the public.

The Lokomat system has dramatically enhanced the effectiveness of automated locomotor training by providing quicker progress than conventional locomotion therapy.  Lokomat’s harness and lift system raises the patient from a wheelchair and places him in a standing position on the treadmill. Robotic devices attached at the patient’s thighs and knees provide support to properly unweight the patient. Lokomat then operates at an appropriate speed creating a walking rhythm.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans use wheelchairs or walk with great difficulty due to a spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke or other neurological diseases. Studies have shown that the loss of motor skills necessary for walking is considered one of the most devastating to a person.  Through locomotion training, Lokomat is offering a wide range of individuals once thought unlikely to walk again the opportunity to reach varying degrees of enhanced ambulation.     

With daily advances in healthcare and technology, Cardinal Hill is committed to remaining a leader in physical rehabilitation.  The addition of Lokomat to our existing cutting edge technology allows Cardinal Hill Hospital to provide a more advanced level of rehabilitative therapy to our patients. 

An anonymous donation made in honor of Dusty Hicks, a central Kentucky teenager injured in a diving accident this summer, made the purchase of Lokomat possible.  Additional companion equipment purchased for Lokomat was made possible by the fundraising efforts of The Kentucky Bash.

Cardinal Hill Board Member Honored
Reprinted courtesy of The Herald-Leader (October 9, 2007)
Article written by Jim Warren (Herald-Leader Staff Writer)

Dr. James F. Glenn, 79, has held so many posts during his 50-plus years in medicine that you could just about fill a book with them.

He was, at one time or another, chairman of urology at Duke University; dean of the Emory University medical school in Atlanta; president of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York; and interim head of the Lucille Parker Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky.

"We had a lot of fun," he says.

Now, it's almost 10 years into Glenn's retirement, and the fun just keeps coming.

Glenn recently returned from Paris - the one in France - where he received the Felix Guyon Medal from the Societe Internationale d'Urologie, a worldwide organization for urologists. The Guyon Medal had been awarded only three time previously in the 100-year history of the society, of which Glenn was once president.

"They gave me this huge gold medal that must weigh a pound, and I don't know what I'm going to do with it," Glenn said last week. "The meeting was held in Paris, where the society was formed; it was the 100th anniversary of the society; and the culminating event was a formal dinner in the King's Dining Room at the Palace of Versailles. It couldn't have been better."

The award was in recognition of Glenn's many contributions to the field of urology, particularly the textbook he produced in the early 1960s. The volume, Glenn's Urologic Surgery, remains in use and now is in its seventh edition.

Glenn's long career began in Lexington, where his father, an automobile dealer who operated Glenn Buick, longed to see his son become a doctor.

So, Glenn took off for the University of Rochester in New York, where he finished an undergraduate degree in three years. He then completed medical school at Duke medical - again in three years - and set out on a career that would take him all over the world.

By the mid-1980s, however, Glenn was looking for a slower pace. So, he essentially retired and moved back to Kentucky.

"Then UK offered me a professorship," he said. "They said, 'You can come and go and do what you want,' and I said, 'That sounds like the job I've been looking for.' But it didn't work out that way."

Glenn had so many talents that UK kept finding big jobs for him to do.

First, UK asked him to step in as interim director of the recently opened Markey Cancer Center. A few years after that, he was asked to become chief of staff at UK Hospital. That led to another job as interim chief of surgery at the hospital. Glenn also found time to maintain a small medical practice for several years before finally deciding it really was time to put on the brakes.

Nowadays, he likes to relax in the peace and quiet at his Woodford County farm and watch while many of the projects he helped to start at UK take off.

"When I was at the university, UK was just on the cusp of burgeoning into a major medical center, and now that's actually happening," he says. "I've seen the plans for the new hospital; and it's going to be absolutely spectacular. UK is going to be a major medical center, no question about it."

Stroke Survivors Get New Tool to Help with Rehabilitation and Recovery
The National Stroke Association has partnered with Cardinal Hill Hospital in an effort to assist stroke survivors in their recovery journey by developing the Stroke Recovery Scorecard. The scorecard was designed in conjunction with the National Stroke Association's Ask Your Doctor education campaign, a program that encourages patients to ask their doctors about stroke.

The scorecard is intended to help stroke survivors and their doctors discuss the options available to help recover communication, movement, sexuality and generally improve the overall quality of life. Dr. Sara Salles, D.O. has been chosen as the National Stroke Association's Kentucky Chairperson.

Cardinal Hill is pleased to offer state-of-the-art treatment for stroke survivors at all stages of recovery. Cardinal Hill houses a 34-bed inpatient stroke unit program and also offers outpatient and home care services as well. Our stroke program is a CARF accredited program.

Cardinal Hill offers cutting edge technology to improve hand and upper body function. For more information about Stroke Services, please call (859) 254-5701.