CSUN THERAPY FACILITY MAY BE EXPANDED.Byline: Steve Carney Staff Writer The 40-year-old therapy center for the disabled at CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge could be upgraded to the largest facility of its kind in the West, officials said Friday, if the U.S. House Appropriations Committee approves funding sought by local representatives. The four therapeutic pools at the proposedWestern Center for Adaptive Aquatic Therapy aquatic therapy Water therapy Rehab medicine The exercising of muscle groups under water, which increases range-of-motion and light resistance for rehabilitation. See Rehabilitation medicine. would quadruple what California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , has now to aid physical rehabilitation physical rehabilitation See Physical therapy. for patients with cerebral palsy cerebral palsy (sərē`brəl pôl`zē), disability caused by brain damage before or during birth or in the first years, resulting in a loss of voluntary muscular control and coordination. , multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, stroke, arthritis, head trauma, spinal cord injury Spinal Cord Injury Definition Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation and motor control. Description Approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur each year in the United States. and other disabilities. CSUN's facility, the Center for the Achievement for the Physically Disabled, opened in 1960 with one pool and now serves about 600 people a year. Officials now say it needs to enlarge because of its 100-person waiting list, CSUN spokeswoman Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Ramos Chandler said. Last year, U.S. Rep. Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, whose district includes CSUN, won authorization for the new center in the Workforce Investment Act he authored. ``That was the first step, and we accomplished that,'' said McKeon's press secretary, David Foy. ``Now we have to get an appropriation for it.'' Chandler said McKeon recognizes that an expanded therapy center would help not only the CSUN students in training and those who need rehabilitation, but patients from throughout the area. ``Because what we do at the university is unique, he has continually been supportive,'' she said. This past May, McKeon - along with Reps. Howard Berman, D-Mission Hills, Elton Gallegly, R-Oxnard, James Rogan, R-Pasadena, and Brad Sherman, D-Woodland Hills - asked the House Appropriations Committee to set aside $2.5 million for the center in the 1999 Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations Act. The total cost of the facility would be about $3.5 million, $900,000 of which the university already has raised. |
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