Courage Kenny Patient Gets Permanent 'Joy Ride'

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Courage Kenny Patient Gets Permanent 'Joy Ride' ccxmedia.org

A crowd of family, friends, doctors and physical therapists gathered outside Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute in Golden Valley on Thursday morning to watch Elisha Aurness receive a recumbent Tricycle — a surprise donation courtesy of Birdies4Brains.

“I cannot believe it,” said Aurness. “What a blessing.”

A car crash in 2020 left Aurness with a traumatic brain injury. The former runner, bicyclist and kickboxer uses a wheelchair to get around most of the time.

“For three years, she’s kind of been stuck,” said her mother, Cindy Morast.

During Elisha’s therapy, clinicians including Ryan Trench with Allina Health assessed her ability to operate the recumbent tricycle, which contains two wheels out front, an electric-assisted motor and automatic gear shifting.

“Sometimes you just see it click,” said Trench. “We rode around the parking lot, rode down the hall, and it was just working, and we didn’t have to make any drastic changes.”

But she could only use the trike ...

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