{"id":5799,"date":"2021-05-06T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:19:50","slug":"pt-students-serve-the-community-by-building-a-wheelchair-ramp-for-someone-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2021\/05\/06\/pt-students-serve-the-community-by-building-a-wheelchair-ramp-for-someone-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Students Serve the Community by Building a Wheelchair Ramp for Someone in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/belmont-physical-therapy-students-serve-the-community-by-building-a-wheelchair-ramp-for-someone-in-need\/&amp;title=Belmont Physical Therapy Students Serve the Community by Building a Wheelchair Ramp for Someone in Need\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/physical-therapy-story.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/722694.smushcdn.com\/1292217\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/physical-therapy-story-696x522.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" alt=\"Second year students on built ramp\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" title=\"physical therapy story\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, second-year students in the Belmont Doctor of Physical Therapy program volunteered to construct a wheelchair accessible ramp on the home of a community member in need who uses a power wheelchair. The previous ramp was not built to ADA-compliant regulations and was too steep and slippery when wet, creating a hazard when leaving the home. The students performed well under pressure and completed the project quickly during the community member\u2019s doctor appointment so as not to be an inconvenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ramp build is an annual project between second-year DPT students and United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee. This year\u2019s ramp build was coordinated by Dr. Cathey Norton, assistant professor in the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont.&nbsp;During the course of the project, 21 students with a range of talents and experience came together to run power saws and nail guns to complete the ramp in five hours, with careful monitoring from Professor Dr. Renee Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the rapid shift to remote learning last spring, this project became a casualty of the pandemic. This was a welcome opportunity to get back out and serve the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, second-year students in the Belmont Doctor of Physical Therapy program volunteered to construct a wheelchair accessible ramp on the home of a community member in need who uses a power wheelchair. The previous ramp was not built to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2021\/05\/06\/pt-students-serve-the-community-by-building-a-wheelchair-ramp-for-someone-in-need\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-science","category-chs","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}