She was injured in a car accident at the age of five – today she is 19 and a promising handball player, living her life to the fullest. But it wasn’t always easy to be a child with a spinal cord injury.
This is Julia Johansson’s inspiring story.
Topics: Clean Intermittent Catheterization (CIC), Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
Taneli Tenhunen has had a spinal cord injury from birth, and reveals my own prejudice towards those who use a wheelchair. Taneli can’t fly either, but close enough.
He made it to the Paralympics in Beijing and now he is planning his comeback in the tennis court. Next stop Tokyo, 2020!
You can’t fly, right? But probably you don’t think about that much? I can’t walk and I don’t think about that much…
In a perfect world, urinary catheters would be environmentally friendly enough to flush down the toilet, but not yet achievable. But there are ways to reduce the environmental footprint of catheters!
This time we will do some trend spotting, and what could be better than discussing the future with someone who made history, revolutionizing catheterization with the hydrophilic catheter – Jan Utas.
Did you know that 8 out of 10 people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) experience bladder problems? And that the risk of developing MS is significantly higher for women than for men?
So, with the International Women’s Day in mind, we will put extra focus on MS and the bladder today!
Topics: Clean Intermittent Catheterization (CIC), Multiple Sklerose (MS)
