Life as a Wheelchair User
Should Be Easier to Navigate.

United Spinal helps you access what you need — the right equipment, the right care, the right information — while fighting to make the world work better for our community.

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Life as a Wheelchair User
Should Be Easier to Navigate.

United Spinal helps you access what you need — the right equipment, the right care, the right information — while fighting to make the world work better for our community.

Become a Member

Work With Us

The systems intended to support you often don’t.

Equipment denials. Doctors who don’t understand spinal cord injury. Benefits that disappear as soon as you earn an income. Disability information that’s scattered, incomplete, or written for someone else. These are gaps in systems that were never designed for wheelchair users to live full, independent lives.

United Spinal is here to close those gaps — for you today and for everyone in our community tomorrow.

70,000+

Members

Chapters Nationwide

450

TRAINED PEER MENTORS

100

SUPPORT GROUPS

2,500

RESOURCE CENTER CASES ANNUALLY

2,700

REGISTERED ADVOCATES

FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS

Find Your Community. Get the Support You Need.

Membership is free for you and your family. Connect with peers, access resources and strengthen your voice in three steps.

FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS

Find Your Community. Get the Support You Need.

Membership is free for you and your family. Connect with peers, access resources and strengthen your voice in three steps.

Join Free

Connect and Access Our Services

Our staff will reach out and help you find peer support, access resources, join virtual events and tap into United Spinal’s 80 years of expertise.

Navigate With Confidence

With the right support and community behind you, you’re ready to navigate the world with confidence and help shape it for the next person.

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Connect and Access Our Services

Our staff will reach out and help you find peer support, access resources, join virtual events and tap into United Spinal’s 80 years of expertise.

Navigate With Confidence

With the right support and community behind you, you’re ready to navigate the world with confidence and help shape it for the next person.

Support Programs

Resource Center

Get guidance on healthcare, benefits, adaptive equipment, and accessibility modifications from expert staff who understand your needs.

Peer Support

Talk one-on-one with a trained peer mentor matched to your unique situation. In person or virtual.

Grassroots Advocacy Network

Access training, resources and opportunities to advocate for policies that will benefit our community.

Disaster Relief

Access funding to rebuild after a natural disaster and resources to prepare for emergencies.

Work Readiness Program

Get expert coaching and practical tools to find meaningful work on your timeline and your terms.

Chapter Network

Find your chapter for local support, community events and adaptive sports opportunities.

MEMBER PUBLICATION

New Mobility

For more than three decades, New Mobility has published groundbreaking content for active wheelchair users. Practical advice from people who live it, reviews of life-changing technology, and coverage that demands equity in healthcare, travel and every facet of life.

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All I can say — and it’s just been an hour or so since I was contacted by United Spinal — is I feel a whole lot less alone and confused than I have in a long while.
— Allison H., New member, Massachusetts

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Make Your Organization Accessible to 5.5 Million Wheelchair Users

You want to make your buildings, products, and culture inclusive, but it’s hard to know where to start. We work with everyone from Fortune 500 corporations to small businesses and universities. Whatever your starting point, we make sure your accessibility and inclusion efforts are authentic and effective — not performative.

Tell Us Your Challenge

Every organization has accessibility and inclusion gaps. Tell us your starting point: product gaps, outreach to the disability community, physical accessibility, workplace inclusion.

We Build a Strategy

Our team assesses your gaps and builds a practical roadmap grounded in access to and insights from our membership base.

Become an Organization the Community Trusts

When inclusion is authentic, the disability community notices. That trust translates into loyalty, advocacy and a reputation that’s impossible to imitate.

Accessibility Services

Ensure your projects are genuinely accessible with plan review, design consultation and site assessments from accessibility experts with decades of experience.

Corporate and Organizational Partnerships

Access the lived experience of our community to help shape your product design, outreach, DEI and policy goals.

Partnership in Practice

Whirlpool brought United Spinal into the design room for accessible dishwasher rack.

We connected Whirlpool’s design team with 30 members of our Michigan chapter for hands-on testing and direct feedback — ensuring the Spin&Load rack worked for wheelchair users before it hit stores. When it launched, we reached 192,000 people. Most of them were the wheelchair users and families Whirlpool built it for.

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Help Us Continue Our Mission

Since 1946, United Spinal Association has been the backbone of support for the wheelchair community. From peer mentoring to national advocacy, your donation keeps our vital programs running so that no one has to navigate their journey alone. Help us continue this mission for the next 80 years.

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