There is a wonderful video that goes with this piece form The Boston Globe.
"(Andrew) Taylor is amid a grand experiment. In his third-floor laboratory, he is replicating the workouts of avid oarsmen who pound away on indoor rowing machines inside boathouses along the river. But in Taylor’s lab, there’s a key difference: His rowers are paraplegics.
Rowing, Taylor believes, is the perfect exercise for people with spinal cord injuries, and Boston the perfect place to introduce it to them. He is calling on paraplegics from all over the region to join in his study, and begin the grueling training regimen that could rebuild their atrophied bodies. If all goes well, the paraplegics will break free of the Spaulding lab and join in the century-old rite of racing on the Charles."
Read the piece and watch the video.
Rob
