William took up the hobby of painting while in rehab recovering from an accident that left him a quadriplegic. But with limited use of his hands, holding a paintbrush wasn’t working so well. “The brush was difficult to hold and…
Kyia is a T12/L1 paraplegic who demonstrates how she gets her toddler son in his backward-facing car seat in her SUV. "I used to have a car, and with a car it's WAY easier. But when I got pregnant I…
Roseann was a spectator at the Boston Marathon in 2013. She was near the finish line when the bombs went off, and her leg was badly damaged. Mike was the firefighter who aided Roseann that day. He accompanied her to…
Kyia is a paraplegic who has mastered the art of transferring to the driver’s seat of her SUV. It’s something she’s had to practice over and over in order to be able to do as efficiently as she does. I'm…
Planning your once-in-a-lifetime dream vacation can be stressful enough, but sometimes all the planning in the world can be undone when you arrive at your destination and find it is not accessible for your needs. Perhaps the room is accessible,…
Matty is a C4 quadriplegic, and he enjoys going to physical therapy to work on strengthening his body. At 22 months post-injury, here are some of the exercises he does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9U88gCozYk First, he works on sitting balance. He sits upright…
John is deaf and blind – so was his late wife. And together they raised three children. Melva, John’s oldest child, and her father were recently interviewed for a StoryCorps segment. Melva communicated with her dad through a TeleBraille machine. She…
Support groups offer peer-to-peer support for newly injured individuals with a spinal cord injury or for those who have struggled for years with issues.
Kristen is a caregiver for her husband Jeff who is a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic, and she shares an incident to highlight why she always stays with him whenever he is in the hospital. Since Kristen performs all of Jeff’s medical care…
Lauren was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was 18 months old. Because of the extreme tightness of the muscles in Lauren’s body, her parents were told that she would never be able to do things like eat, sit up…