“Everyone has a story,” says Paul Mariager. Paul is a C5/C6 quadriplegic who states after watching a documentary about a person with a spinal cord injury he was left feeling that his determination was being questioned. The documentary ended with…
TJ Griffin became a C5/C6 quadriplegic as a result of a football injury. He says that he could not imagine how he would live life while sitting in a wheelchair. TJ pressed on by setting attainable goals to achieve during…
Physical embraces have the potential to be an awkward experience, especially for a wheelchair user. Krystina (a quadriplegic) and Robyn Jackson have come up with the following four techniques to use when attempting to hug a person in a wheelchair.…
Tracy Todd was injured in a horrific automobile crash when she was 28 years old. Now, nearly two decades later, Tracy lives her life as a high level quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down. She has chronicled the ups and…
Jamie Goodwin, a paraplegic, used to make excuses as to why it was hard for her to stay active and healthy. She stated that she did not know how to do work-outs in her wheelchair and was not motivated. Her…
Steph Aiello, a quadriplegic with limited hand function, is a beauty icon with thousands of followers on social media. She shares some of her own fashion tips on how she manages to get dressed independently while still looking fierce in…
Halloween is right around the corner, and this is the time of year when people start asking, "What am I going to dress up as?" We've asked wheelchair users in the AbleThrive community to share their best Halloween costumes. Many…
Jack Osbourne, T.V. personality, has used his status as a celebrity to bring awareness to multiple sclerosis in recent years. Jack was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in 2012. He has created a website called “You Don’t Know Jack…
Jill Coval is the Director of Psychological Services at Shepherd’s Center Inpatient Spinal Cord Injury program. She states that there are two major types of stress for people living with a spinal cord injury: immediate stress and long term stress. Immediate…
At age 18, Josh Heine was just beginning his life as an adult. He had graduated high school, enlisted in the Navy, and his girlfriend was pregnant. Three weeks before shipping out, Josh was involved in a car accident where…