Buildcare Breathe and Freeze 2023

Fuelled by the personal journey of one of our Directors, Jason, a young, C4 quadriplegic, Buildcare partnered with local breathwork expert Gene Kelly to create our first annual event – Buildcare Breathe and Freeze. Aimed to expose just a minute portion of the physical discomfort that people with injuries like Jason face every day. 

A highlight of the B&F 2022 was seeing Jason push his limits (to those who have had the chance to meet him, you will have no trouble understanding how far he pushes limits) and get into the ice. As always, his family and friends were right there beside him, along with the co-founders of Buildcare, Kaine and Dan.

For many people who live with spinal cord injury, there is an inability for the body to respond to environmental changes in temperature. This results in individuals spending their days with either excessively high or excessively low body temperatures. This deregulation of body temperature management often occurs acutely following traumatic injury causing spinal cord injury and can persist for a lifetime with no improvement. By exposing able bodied individuals to the extremes of an ice bath, we can share just a fraction of the discomfort that people with these injuries face every single day.