Benefits of Elevate and Stand Features on Power Wheelchairs

Power wheelchairs often have many available features that users can choose from when ordering. Here are some benefits of the elevate and stand features that many leading power wheelchair manufacturers offer on their products. https://youtu.be/811l3qQ7QaA Elevate The elevate feature is…

Skating to Victory Over Stroke

Brian Propp has been skating since he was a little boy growing up in Saskatchewan, Canada, and skated in many of the world’s biggest arenas over his 15 years in the NHL, but it was his skating on the 3rd floor…

Laughter is the Best Medicine

“I like to tell people I started doing stand-up comedy when I finally couldn’t,” jokes Wes Johnson. As a member of the Army National Guard, Wes’s plans to deploy to Afghanistan were altered when he suffered a C5-6 spinal cord…

Finding Your Own Way of Coping

Different people have their own unique way of coping with difficult times, and for James McQuillan, his method is by focusing and talking about something else. When he was 20 years old, James suffered a spinal cord injury while playing…

US Spinal Cord Injury Statistics

In the United States, there are currently between 240,000 and 337,000 people living with some type of spinal cord injury. These injuries most often lead to a diagnosis of paraplegia (lower limbs affected) or quadriplegia (all four limbs affected). In addition, spinal cord injuries…

Persevering Towards The Future You Want

  At birth, Ali was without oxygen for 2 minutes, and nurses were afraid he would not survive. But he did survive, and throughout his life, he has found ways to keep surviving – keep thriving.  Ali was born in…

Adapting To Aphasia

Avi Golden was an active EMT and paramedic when his life took an unexpected turn. In early June 2007, at 33 years of age, Avi was admitted to Columbia Hospital, in New York, for surgery on an mitral valve prolapse (MVP) repair that…

Woman Turns Medical Images Into Art

Most people living with a disability are oftentimes overly familiar with medical imaging – those black and white, stark representations of the interior human body. A clinical snapshot of a diagnosis. A woman named Elizabeth is setting out to change…