Editor's Notebook
Jabs Making Progress at Courage Center, Despite Costs
Jack Jablonski has been in the ABLE Program for two months.
$18,000. That's the reported cost of three months of therapy in Courage Center's ABLE Program, which is an innovative option for people living with paralysis or neurological conditions that stimulates muscles and nerves to promote a greater degree of neuro recovery. Jack Jablonski, the Benilde-St. Margaret's hockey player who sustained a severe spinal cord injury in a game last December, has been in the program the last two months—and with great results. "It's crucial to his rehab and his recovery," his mother, Leslie Jablonski, said Thursday during a press conference before a star-studded gala in Jabs' honor. "He's so much stronger and healthier. He's had movement in his legs and felt his toes tingle ... This stuff is unheard of. He wasn'…
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