{"id":119492,"date":"2016-11-17T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=119492"},"modified":"2016-11-18T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:34:37","slug":"dancing-possible-thanks-uconn-health-pt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/11\/dancing-possible-thanks-uconn-health-pt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Step Closer to Dancing Again Thanks to UConn Health Rehab Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Dancing Possible Thanks to UConn Health PT\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCsvg_up86M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite losing both of her legs due to complications from a rare skin condition, Marybell Lugardo dreams of someday dancing on the beach with her grandchildren.\u00a0 After years of mainly relying on a wheelchair, Marybell recently received two computerized, prosthetic legs. But learning how to use them has been a challenge. Now thanks to physical therapist Carol Mierzwa and advanced equipment used at UConn Health\u2019s Rehabilitation Services Department, Marybell is a step closer to realizing her dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of mainly relying on a wheelchair, Marybell Lugardo recently received two computerized, prosthetic legs.  Thanks to  UConn Health\u2019s Rehabilitation Services Department, Marybell is a step closer to realizing her dream of dancing again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":119502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-119492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 04:40:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/119502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119492"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=119492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=119492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}