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Episode 11: Eric's Straight Talk About Rehab, Sex & Survival After SCI **Mature themes**

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The Wheelchair Roundtable ATP-End User Perspective by Rico Segovia ATP, The Quad-Father & S.J. Cimijotti, DPT

Episode notes
  • Listener discretion is advised. Eric’s story is raw, real, and unforgettable. After surviving two major crashes that left him with spinal cord injuries, he takes us inside the highs and lows of rehab—sharing how medication-induced hallucinations tested his mind, and how humor became his tool to calm others and himself. He recalls the unlikely moment that changed everything: eating a hamburger that reignited his drive to push through therapy and fight for independence.
  • Eric also gets brutally honest about the personal challenges—missing his divorce court date while hospitalized, living in a nursing home for six months, and finding friendship in a resident named Maria. To close the episode, Eric and Danny break stigma wide open with a no-holds-barred discussion about sexuality after spinal cord inj ... 
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Keywords
Wheelchairs, ATP, Paraplegia, CRT, Physical Therapy, OT, RESNA, Rehab Seating