Alaska Department of Parks and Recreation park facilities near Sitka.Click the image below if you want to help keep this website operating. This website has been updated and maintained on a volunteer basis for the past decade by Charles Bingham. To learn more about the event, contact Hillary Martin at 738-0314 or Facebook page Archives This event is part of the Sitka Community Health Fair (part of the Sitka Health Summit) that takes place from 8:30 a.m. Participation in the walk is free, and people who donated more than $26 before Aug. In severe cases, patients can experience paralysis. The symptoms include severe headaches brought on by coughing or sneezing, extreme pain in the neck and shoulders, trouble swallowing and sometimes speaking, respiratory problems and sleep apnea, loss of bladder and bowel control, loss of fine motor control, balance problems, numbness in the hands and feet, the inability to feel hot and cold, and weakness, stiffness and pain in the arms and legs. Sarah will still live with permanent damages that were caused by Chiari, but she is becoming stronger and happier every day.”Ĭhiari is a serious neurological disorder where the bottom part of the brain, the cerebellum, descends out of the skull and crowds the spinal cord, putting pressure on both the brain and spine and causing many symptoms, according to the Conquer Chiari website.Ĭhiari has a diverse and wide-ranging set of symptoms, and 95 percent of patients with Chiari experience at least five of them. 15, and it was an amazing improvement to Sarah’s life. She needed a brain decompression surgery to stop her suffering. “Sarah was living with a 25-millimeter Chiari malformation, one of the largest ones the doctor had seen in his career. “My sister, Sarah Martin, was diagnosed with this illness in the spring of 2012,” she said. September is National Chiari Awareness Month, and Saturday’s Conquer Chiari walk in Sitka is believed to be the first event in Alaska.Ī personal connection to Chiari is why Hillary Martin organized this event.
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In order to raise research money and awareness about the disorder, they created the Conquer Chiari Walk Across America, a series of Conquer Chiari walks takes place in several communities around the country on Sept. at Sweetland Hall (116 College Dr.) on the Sheldon Jackson Campus.Īrnold-Chiari malformation, or Chiari, is a serious neurological disorder that affects about 300,000 people in the United States.
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Registration for the walk starts at 9:30 a.m. 28, to help raise awareness about a neurological disorder called Arnold-Chiari malformation.
Sitka will host its first Conquer Chiari walk on Saturday, Sept.
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