When Froy, a T11 paraplegic, was injured from a gunshot wound as a teenager, he thought his life was over. It was advice from his father that helped Froy begin to see his life from a new perspective: “There are…

Jesi’s world was turned upside down when she became a paraplegic from a motorcycle accident. Soon after her injury, she took part in a clinical trial where a tiny device called a neuro spinal scaffold was implanted in her back.…

Scott’s son Parker sustained a C4/5 spinal cord injury from a diving accident in 2012. Scott reflects on how life after his son’s SCI has both dramatically changed and yet amazingly stayed the same. Scott takes on the role of…

In 1976, an earthquake rattled the city of Tangshan in China. It left 242,769 people dead and 3,817 individuals paralyzed. Gao was living with her family at that time, and they were celebrating her achievement of earning her undergraduate degree just hours…

Oftentimes, people who live with a disability or who have mobility issues get a case of cabin fever in the winter. Colder, inclement weather makes getting out more difficult, and thus, people sometimes find themselves “stuck inside” with the winter…

Joe has spent the last 40 years working with people with disabilities, providing them with orthotics and prosthetics. So it was a bit of a shock when it was his turn to become the patient. Joe experienced a series of…

“My name is Isabella Kres-Nash, I am a student at Brown University, but I am from Seattle Washington, my pronouns are she-her-hers, and I identify as a multiracial black woman.” This is how Isabella says she introduces herself when speaking…

“I had lost the ability to paint with my hands. I had lost the control to do the things that I’d loved.” When she was 20 years old, Mariam was paralyzed from a gunshot. And while she suddenly found herself…