An amazing program started in the Detroit area is now being followed in other countries around the world. It?s called Kids Kicking Cancer?a non-profit program that teaches kids as young as 2 or 3 to use mind over matter when dealing with the pain of cancer treatment.
Over the next several months, Kids Kicking Cancer seminars will be held in communities throughout the Detroit area. See below for the locations.
Carolyn Clifford has a look at Kids Kicking Cancer?
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Michael Hunt is 24 years old ? an age doctors told him he would never reach.?? When he was 9, Michael was diagnosed with muscle cancer.? Doctors removed four ribs and replaced them with plastic.? When his mom asked if they could replace the plastic as he grew, they said that wouldn?t be necessary because he wouldn?t live long enough to outgrow the original implant.
Michael was in the very first kids kicking cancer class at Children?s Hospital.? This non-profit provides weekly classed for children both in-patient and out-patient in the mind-body techniques found in martial arts.? The mission is to ease the pain of very sick children while empowering them to heal physically, spiritually and emotionally.
Through karate, these tiny cancer patients are taught how to deal with pain from needles, chemotherapy or radiation, even pain from depression.
Through breathing exercises and what they call pushing away the darkness, kids like Kate Michaels, who is only 5 and was recently released from the hospital, learn to deal with what most adults would find devastating.
Twelve years ago Robbi Elimelich Goldberg, who is fondly referred to as Rabbi G, started this program with ten kids.? Today it serves 2200.
31 years ago Rabbi G lost his own child to leukemia and realized children were being held down when a shot was needed.? He knew there must be a better way.? So the karate expert with more than 15 years of study began teaching kids suffering from cancer how karate could teach them how to cope with the pain.
The program has spread by word of mouth.? Now other hospitals, even in other countries, are calling to find out the magic of Kids Kicking Cancer.
Board president Lila Lazarus says it is exciting to see such a heartwarming program begin here in Detroit and then travel across the globe.
Kids Kicking Cancer used to rely on $600,000 in federal funds.? Today that money is gone.? So fundraising efforts are underway to preserve this program that has helped so many people like Michael, who has now gone from student to teacher.? He says he wants to give back, but working with the kids helps him continue on his own journey.
Kids Kicking Cancer seminars will be held in communities throughout the Detroit area.
Here is a list of upcoming seminars:
2011
December 12th ? LA SED Community Center in Detroit 5:30 p.m.
2012
January 30th ? The Berman Center for the Performing Arts 7:00pm
January 31st ? Ford Community and Performing Arts Center
February 16th ? Shenandoah Country Club
February 28th ? Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Times are not yet set for some of the seminars.? For more information, call the Kids Kicking Cancer office at (313) 557-0021
Click here to go to the Kids Kicking Cancer website.
Source: http://detroit2020.com/2011/12/01/kids-kicking-cancer-helps-conquer-pain/
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