I come from an "enormous" family by any standards. I wholeheartedly support a public option in healthcare (having worked in socialized and private medical systems). I am a "New Yorker- Brooklyn born and bred" meaning that anything north of lower Westchester is "upstate" to me, south of New Jersey is "deep south" and west of Philadelphia is "the midwest." The most wonderful place in the world to me is "THE City" (there is only one, and I call it home, even though, technically I now live mere steps outside of city limits; Union Square is my favorite neighborhood)- when I perform gait training sessions using the LiteGait I calculate distance covered in "city blocks" and "avenues" (in NYC these are measured distances, and meaningful to all... outside NY, not so much). I tried living in Northern California, and was so bored I had to come running back to New York- didn't survive a year.

MR: Why/How did you choose to become a LiteGait Trainer?

Nechama: My practice was revolutionized from the first time I saw the LiteGait (when Amir came to present at our facility before we owned one)... and that was before the days of a hydraulic lift.  Many of my patients towered over me, and I simply did not have the arm span or the coordination to facilitate appropriate gait patterns while supporting a patient and correcting their posture.  I went to school at a program that emphasized motor learning, and had a neuropsychologist for a research partner, so I knew that "traditional" over-ground gait training would not include adequate opportunities for "good practice" to learn a new motor pattern.  The LiteGait was an answer to my prayers.  I used it quite a bit, but had a difficult time convincing other clinicians in my facility that it was an appropriate tool to use in our gait training practice.  Being a trainer affords me the opportunity to "spread the word" and influence practice on a broader scale.