Daily News from New York, New York • 449

-77 SUNDAY NEWS, MAY 13, 1962 ft i em k-l- n-iji-niimri an -J, 2 Broadening Horizons Rehabilitation institute directed by Dr. Howard A. Rusk with patient) baa many ele-brated names on its list of former patients. President's father, Joseph Kennedy, currently under treatment there, lives in institute's Horizon House (A) model home for handicapped. van clomped to it, holding upright, an electric razor.

With this device he won't have to hold the razor; he can just run his face over the cutting edge. "Dressing is usually considered a task beyond someone in his condition," Miss Zimmerman went on. (The young man, who has had polio, doesn't have enough strength in his arms to -lift his own hands.) "But he is a very bright boy speaks four languages. He wants to be find a job." So the Self-Help Device Unit went to work on his problems. He could, it developed, pull his trousers up to his knees, but no further.

After a time the unit came up with a kind of single diagonal suspender for the lad. After getting his trousers up to his knees, he ducks his head uiider the suspender and stands with the strap crossing one shoulder. The pants come up with him. MOW rehabilitation is not all work. An important facet is entertainment keeping morale high.

The institute has a full recreational program. Lists of activities are posted in the halls each week picnics on Long Island, football games, 4rips to Radio City Music Hall barbecues on the sun deck. Once a week Mrs. Joyce Par- cher, recreational leader on the fifth floor, takes the children swimming in the' tile hydro- therapy tank on the second floor. There are games for them, too.

After the young ones are in bed, the teen-agers often meet in the schoolroom, play hi-fi records and talk. "They like to Mrs. Parcher said. "And eat! We almost always have something to patients includes Roy Cm panel la and the mother of th Tibetan Dalai Lama, one cf the most amazing products Dr. Camille Cayley.

Dr. Cayley, a former swimming and tennis' champion, was a pediatrician in 19f2 when she tumbled off a 12-foot-high balcony at her summer cabin and cracked her neck. To'iay she has the use of only six joints in her body other than her her wrists, elbows and shoulders. Despite this, she ran still swim the small lake she Msits summer weekend without anv artificial She drives a car and she main tains a full-time psvehiatrio practice. Disability Is' What ro Moke of It "It is nut really the extent of injury that counts," Dr.

Cayley said in her Riverside Drive office. "It is the attitude toward it." Dr. Cayley learned this truth during her stay at the rehabilitation institute. It was a revelation which decided her to switch from pediatrics to psychiatry. She completed the required schooling for the new license and now many of her clients are other handicapped persons making similar psychologic! adjustments.

The Department of Motor Vehicles tested Dr. Cayley at her own insistence and found her a safe driver. Peeause she has no strength in her fingers to grip the wheel, she wears a leather gauntlet laced onto her right forearm. Sewn into the palm, it has a tube which she slides over a spindle bolted onto the wheel. "With this device, my wrist would break before I'd lose control of the car," she said, With her left hand, she operates the lever controlling the accelerator and air brakes.

She proves every day that the seriously handicapped do not have ri remain cloistered in their homes. "You don't pet fine china by putting clay in the sun," says Dr. Rusk, explaining the enormous Strength of character displayed his rehabilitated patients. "You get it only if the clay goea through the white heat it the kiln." eat a pizza Sloppy Joes (something like hamburgers, only dripping writh sauce). Or Denyse might bring a cake she baked in the kitchen." High spirits, strong will power and dogged persistence are ab-stibite necessities for rehabilitation.

A patient must have strength of character or develop it to spend long, lony hours developing new muscles to take over from lost ones; or teaching 'the barest thread of a muscle to accept responsibility. Thit meens weeks, months in the mat room, working on a disabled If or arm or making a foot-normal limb st longer. It means starting from the beginning learning how to get out of bed again, how to get into a bathtub again. Training is given in' the ADL room Activities of Daily Living. And patients who i have lost parts of their lower I limbs must learn how to walk again, climb and descend stairs with new braces, crutches or arti-! ficial lees.

These activities are carried out in the Ambulation Room. It's Tough Grind, Says One Patient "It's like training for a sport," said John Vazquez, one of the outpatients. "You have to give it everything." This kind of fortitude is Inspired partly by example. The institute purposely peppers its staff with handicapped employes who have made it have become rehabilitated. On the third floor, in the vocational services section, two secretaries, Anna Cali and Carr Massi, hold down jobs from wheelchairs.

Anna drives her own car to work from the Bronx every day not an uncommon achievement. Dr. Alice hoomer, assistant chief psychologist of the entire institute, is a paraplegic para- '-'zcrt from the waist down. She drives to work, steering her car from a wheelchair. The car has i front seat.

To get out, she opens I he back door, and presses a switch which electrically lowers a ramp. Getting into the car, a small winch and cable tow her bark up the ramv. i In a hospital where the roll of It is called the Self-Help Device Unit, headed by Miss Muriel Zimmerman, OTR (Occupational Therapist, Registered). The walls of her office, Room 302-A, are lined with panel boards studded with ingenious contrivances. Each of them has helped a handicapped person to resume his life with some measure of independence.

Miss Zjmmerman held out a kind of fiberglas glove to which was fastened the handle of a razor. "Invented for a man who had the use of only one fing-er on his hand," she explained. Another device," a leather wrist strap to wnich a sheath was sewn, was esigned to hold the handle of a toothbrush, a rat-tail comb, a typing stick or a fork. People who have lost the gTip in their hands use this device. Many of these aids are Miss Zimmerman's inventions.

She demonstrated a device she developed for an arthritic patient who couldn raise her arms high enough to blow her nose. This patient complained that nurses either pinched too hard or not hard enough. With a pair of baby bottle forceps and a couple of pieces of sponge, the therapist constructed a gadget which en abled the woman to reach her nose and do the blowing job roperly. "This is a new thing we're do ing for a patient who can't bend his arms at all, vet wants to shave himself," Miss Zimmerman said, moving toward a table in her shop. A tubular apparatus in 19i9, more than 300 doctors from the world over have come there to train and study Dr.

Husk's rehabilitation methods. These doctors have established rehabilitation centers in 5S foreign comt tries. Rehabilitation is an incredibly-complex job. Unlike the treatment of a common illness, where all patients generally respond to the same remedies, in rehabilitation each person requires individual consideration. Disabilities vary with the person, and therapy is also influenced by what the patient expects to be doing when he pets out.

So the gray brick buildine on 34th St, is divided into more compartments than a pigeon coie. Women Discover They Are Still Housewives One compartment contains the practice kitchen where women patients come to convince themselves they can still prepare a dinner for their families. Against one wall is a low, red vinyl counter with a sink in the middle. Space under the sink allows a wheelchair patient to pull up close. Across the she has a stove, refrigerator and a low oven.

The tantalizing: smell of a polio patient's banana layer cake came from the oven when we were there. "We have to show the women "how they can still be housewives, even with their disabilities," said Mrs. Virginia Wheeler, in charge of the kitchen. "A woman, paralyzed on one side from a stroke, wonders how in the world she can peel a po tato. Mrs.

wheeler supplied the answer by pulling out a board with suction cups on the bottom, and slapping it down on the counter. Two short spikes are fixed on the top of the board. Wlile it is Jield in place by the uction cups, the patient sticks a potato on the spikes and the rest is easy. for tossing- a salad or mixing vancake batter. Mrs.

Wheeler has a plastic basket secured with diction cups. A mixing bowl or salad bowl is set into the basket where it is held firmly in place the cook can work with one band. How abovt opening a can of beer with one arm; Its easy, Put the can in a drawer, with the lid sticking up. Squeeze, the drawer shut and hold it there with a hip; apply the can opener. Many, of the gadgets in the liitchen are the inventions of yet another section the laby rinthine rehabilitation institute.

Jib .4 l.SKiMi.!.y Irani Undeterred by severe handicap. Dr. Camille Cayley drives car with halp of apecially-installed air brakes and mannal controls. Because ber finger Jiave no grip, she wears glove with tube sewn into palm. To drive, she slides tube over spindle bolted onto steering wheel..